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語源

From New Latin hemiplegia, from Ancient Greek ἡμιπλήξ (hēmiplḗx), also ἡμιπληγής (hēmiplēgḗs, “stricken on one side”), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “half”) + πλήσσω (plḗssō, “to strike”). By surface analysis, hemi- +‎ -plegia.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌhem.ɪˈpliː.dʒ(i.)ə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌhem.ɪˈpli.dʒə/

名詞

hemiplegia (usually uncountable, plural hemiplegias)

1. Total or partial inability to move one side of the body.
   • 1904, James Joyce, letter to C. P. Curran, August 1904

     I call the series Dubliners to betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city.

   • 1932, Jules Furthman, Shanghai Express, spoken by Harvey (Clive Brook):

     As you doubtlessly also can read from the paper you pilfered from my bag, hemiplegia, a medical term known to the layman as paralysis resulting from a blood clot in the brain.

派生語

Further reading

• “hemiplegia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hemiplegia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “hemiplegia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.