Paraplegia
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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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dawn Freshwater; Sian Masiln-Prothero (2013). Blackwell's Nursing Dictionary. John Wiley & Sons. p. 663. ISBN 978-1-118-69087-1. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ↑ Robert Jean Campbell (2009). Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p. 723. ISBN 978-0-19-534159-1. Retrieved 12 September 2013.