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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]].<ref name="FreshwaterMasiln-Prothero2013">{{cite book|author1=Dawn Freshwater|author2=Sian Masiln-Prothero|title=Blackwell's Nursing Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YdGTBVj8fuMC&pg=PT663|accessdate=12 September 2013|year=2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-69087-1|pages=663}}</ref>
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'''Paraplegia''' is [[paralysis]] of the legs and lower half of the body. It happens when the [[spinal cord]] is damaged in the thoracic, lumbar or [[sacrum|sacral]] area. Sometimes, they are kept alive by a life-support machine. It sometimes happens to people because they get a [[disease]] or spinal cord injury.<ref name="FreshwaterMasiln-Prothero2013">{{cite book|author1=Dawn Freshwater|author2=Sian Masiln-Prothero|title=Blackwell's Nursing Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YdGTBVj8fuMC&pg=PT663|accessdate=12 September 2013|year=2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-69087-1|pages=663}}</ref>
    
Superior paraplegia is a type of paraplegia where people cannot use their arms and the top of their [[human body|body]].<ref name="Campbell2009">{{cite book|author=Robert Jean Campbell|title=Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=76vPu_G2UkgC&pg=PA723|accessdate=12 September 2013|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-534159-1|pages=723}}</ref>
 
Superior paraplegia is a type of paraplegia where people cannot use their arms and the top of their [[human body|body]].<ref name="Campbell2009">{{cite book|author=Robert Jean Campbell|title=Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=76vPu_G2UkgC&pg=PA723|accessdate=12 September 2013|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-534159-1|pages=723}}</ref>