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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Signs and Symptoms > Neurologic Manifestations > Paralysis > Quadriplegia
Nervous System Diseases > Neurologic Manifestations > Paralysis > Quadriplegia

Preferred term

Quadriplegia  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Tetraplegia
  • Tetraplegias

Scope note

  • Severe or complete loss of motor function in all four limbs which may result from BRAIN DISEASES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; or rarely MUSCULAR DISEASES. The locked-in syndrome is characterized by quadriplegia in combination with cranial muscle paralysis. Consciousness is spared and the only retained voluntary motor activity may be limited eye movements. This condition is usually caused by a lesion in the upper BRAIN STEM which injures the descending cortico-spinal and cortico-bulbar tracts.

History note

  • 1967(1964)

In other languages

  • tetraplegia

    Finnish

  • kvadriplegia
  • määrittämätön tetraplegia
  • neliraajahalvaus
  • ospecificerad tetrapares
  • quadriplegi UNS
  • quadriplegia
  • quadriplegia NAS
  • tarkemmin määrittämätön kvadriplegia
  • tetrapareesi
  • tetraparesis
  • tetraplegi UNS
  • tetraplegia NAS
  • tetraplegia non specificata
  • Tetraplegi

    Swedish

  • Kvadriplegi
  • Spastisk tetraplegi
  • Tetrapares

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011782

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