Hemiplegia

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CHM-005191",
  "term": "Hemiplegia",
  "field": "Chemistry",
  "definition": "Loss of voluntary movement affecting the arm, trunk and leg on a single side of the body. Brain damage, with stroke the leading cause, produces it on the side opposite the lesion since the motor fibres cross over in the brainstem. A hemisection of the cervical spinal cord, in contrast, paralyzes the same side as the injury.",
  "subject": "Chemistry and Human Health",
  "see_also": [
    "paralysis"
  ],
  "references": [
    "PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 872 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/chemistry/hemiplegia/"
}