Paraplegia

(par-ah-ple’ ’ -je-ah)\_~apd, beside; ■a’Atp/i], stroke]. Paralysis of the lower half of the body, or of the lower extremities. P., Ataxic, a disease characterized clinically by a combination of ataxia and exaggerated tendon-reflexes, and anatomically by sclerosis of the posterior and lateral columns of the cord. P., Infantile Spasmodic, spastic cerebral paraplegia, spasmodic tabes dorsal is, birth-palsy; a spastic paralysis coming on in early childhood, and usually dependent on a cerebral lesion with failure of proper development or secondary sclerosis of the motor tracts of the spinal cord. The causes are injuries during birth, intrauterine cerebral inflammation, or anomalies of brain-development. P., Spastic, lateral sclerosis. 479