hemiplegic, a. Path.
(hɛmɪˈplɛdʒɪk, -pliː-)
[f. prec. + -ic.]
Pertaining to or characterized by hemiplegia; affected with or subject to hemiplegia. Also n., one who is affected by hemiplegia (see also quot. 1970).
| 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 478 Hemiplegic palsy. Ibid. 480 The jaundice affecting the hemiplegic side alone. 1861 T. J. Graham Pract. Med. 602 The convulsion is hemiplegic. 1878 Smithsonian Inst. Rep. 419 note, A hemiplegic person has the will to move the paralysed limbs, but not the power. 1890 Retrospect Med. CII. 155 Convalescent hemiplegics. 1970 New Scientist 3 Sept. 473/1 It would enable amputees and hemi-plegics—persons paralyzed below the waist—to walk about under their own power. |