double hemiplegia

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English

Noun

double hemiplegia (usually uncountable, plural double hemiplegias)

  1. (medicine) Total or partial inability to move both sides of the body, but for the fact that one side is significantly more affected than the other.
    • 2017, Staff, "Types of Cerebral Palsy", MyChild
      Double hemiplegia/double hemiparesis indicates all four limbs are involved, but one side of the body is more affected than the other.