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Paraplegia is paralysis of the legs and lower half of the body. It happens when the spinal cord is damaged. Sometimes, they are kept alive by a life-support machine. It sometimes happens to people because they get a disease.[1]

Superior paraplegia is a type of paraplegia where people cannot use their arms and the top of their body.[2]

A person who has paraplegia is sometimes called a paraplegic.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dawn Freshwater; Sian Masiln-Prothero (2013). Blackwell's Nursing Dictionary. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 663. ISBN 978-1-118-69087-1 . https://books.google.com/books?id=YdGTBVj8fuMC&pg=PT663. Retrieved 12 September 2013. 
  2. ↑ Robert Jean Campbell (2009). Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary. Oxford University Press. pp. 723. ISBN 978-0-19-534159-1 . https://books.google.com/books?id=76vPu_G2UkgC&pg=PA723. Retrieved 12 September 2013. 

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