At six years of age she was attacked with hemiplegia, and never recovered perfect health.
hemiplegia is usually the result of a cerebral hemorrhage or embolism.
hemiplegia, he calls it; rush of blood to the head;—probably indigestion, or gouty humors, exasperated by over-fatigue.
Is hemiplegia a dyspepsia of the nerves of nutriment of the brain and organs of that side?
Toward the end of that month some hemiplegia, or at least some weakness of one side of his body, developed.
In hemiplegia they should be applied along the bony part of the side of the neck; in paraplegia, across the loins.
The latter is more apt to be associated with psychic changes, dementia, etc.; the former, with hemiplegia.
Disease of the arteries, apoplexy, or softening, followed by hemiplegia.
Should the thrombus be on the carotid arteries, hemiplegia may result from cerebral embolism.
Several cases with partial or complete hemiplegia, hemiplegia and aphasia, or facial paralysis are recorded below.
hemiplegia hem·i·ple·gia (hěm'ĭ-plē'jə, -jē-ə)
Paralysis affecting only one side of the body.