Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Partial paralysis of the lower limbs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, partial paralysis of the lower extremities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun weakness of both legs, resulting from disease of the nervous system.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a slight paralysis or weakness of both legs
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Examples
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There I cause myelopathy or even tropical spastic paraparesis.
Human T-cell Lymphotrophic Virus 1 Emma Lurie 2009
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There I cause myelopathy or even tropical spastic paraparesis.
Archive 2009-01-01 Emma Lurie 2009
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Epidemic spastic paraparesis occurs mainly among women and children.
10: Food science 1996
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Three recent articles give additional details on the occurrence of spastic paraparesis in the Bandundo region of Zaire (110 live and 24 dead cases).
10: Food science 1996
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Konzo disease, according to the World Health Organization, is a tropical myelopathy, characterized by the onset of spastic paraparesis, which occurs as epidemics in rural areas of Africa.
IRIN 2010
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Thirteen patients had paraparesis and one had quadriparesis.
Naturejobs - All Jobs J Kalita 2010
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Michaelsson J, Barbosa HM, Jordan KA, Chapman JM, Brunialti MK, et al. (2008) The frequency of CD127low expressing CD4+CD25high T regulatory cells is inversely correlated with human T lymphotrophic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) proviral load in HTLV-1-infection and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Karina M. Melo et al. 2009
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The symptoms were scored as follows: grade 1; tail weakness or tail paralysis, grade 2; hind leg paraparesis, grade 3; hind leg paralysis, grade 4; complete paralysis, moribund state or death.
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