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Hemiparesis – The loss of function to only one side of the body; Triparesis – Three limbs. This can either mean both legs and one arm, both arms and a leg, or a combination of one arm, one leg, and face; Double hemiparesis – All four limbs are involved, but one side of the body is more affected than the other; Tetraparesis – All four limbs
How many of these did you know? Tell us in the comments below! The canthus is where the upper and lower eyelids meet. The rasceta are the lines on the inside of your wrist. The purlicue is the ...
Hemiparesis, also called unilateral paresis, is the weakness of one entire side of the body (hemi-means "half"). Hemiplegia, in its most severe form, is the complete paralysis of one entire side of the body.
Critchley (1953) [6] numbered various deficits of body image, including somatoparaphrenia and the rare loss of awareness of one body half corresponding to asomatognosia or hemidepersonalization. He stated that these (as well as other bodily) phenomena are not "sharply demarcated" and that it is not uncommon for one condition to merge into another.
The ANS controls some of the body's natural processes such as sweating, skin flushing and pupil response to stimuli. [1] Individuals with this syndrome have an absence of sweat skin flushing unilaterally, usually on one side of the face, arms and chest. It is an autonomic disorder that may occur at any age.
This is a list of human anatomy mnemonics, categorized and alphabetized.For mnemonics in other medical specialties, see this list of medical mnemonics.Mnemonics serve as a systematic method for remembrance of functionally or systemically related items within regions of larger fields of study, such as those found in the study of specific areas of human anatomy, such as the bones in the hand ...
one-half, partly Latin semi-semiconscious sial(o)-saliva, salivary gland: Latin salīva, saliva. sialagogue: sigmoid(o)-sigmoid, S-shaped curvature Greek σιγμοειδής (sigmoeidḗs), crescent-shaped, lunate sigma-shaped sigmoid colon: sinistr(o)-left, left side Latin sinister: sinistrocardia: sinus-of or pertaining to the sinus
FG Trade/Getty Images. 15. Brad. A diminutive form of Bradley and Bradshaw—this boy’s name of British origin has starpower on its side (hello, Brad Pitt) and a meaning of “broad and wide.”