cerebral palsy

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   a loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth

   Synonymsspastic paralysis

   Broaderbrain disorder

Questions about cerebral palsy

What does cerebral palsy mean?

cerebral palsy means "a loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth".

What is another word for cerebral palsy?

Close synonyms include spastic paralysis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cerebral palsy a common word?

cerebral palsy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.