unilateral paralysis

1. 1.

   paralysis of one side of the body

   Synonymshemiplegia

   Broaderparalysis

Questions about unilateral paralysis

What does unilateral paralysis mean?

unilateral paralysis means "paralysis of one side of the body".

What is another word for unilateral paralysis?

Close synonyms include hemiplegia. 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 unilateral paralysis a common word?

unilateral paralysis 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.