Preferred Name |
Tetraplegia |
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Synonyms |
Paralysis of all four limbs Quadriplegia |
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Definitions |
Paralysis of all four limbs, and trunk of the body below the level of an associated injury to the spinal cord. The etiology of quadriplegia is similar to that of paraplegia except that the lesion is in the cervical spinal cord rather than in the thoracic or lumbar segments of the spinal cord. |
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ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0002445 |
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database_cross_reference |
SNOMEDCT_US:11538006 MSH:D011782 UMLS:C0034372 |
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definition |
Paralysis of all four limbs, and trunk of the body below the level of an associated injury to the spinal cord. The etiology of quadriplegia is similar to that of paraplegia except that the lesion is in the cervical spinal cord rather than in the thoracic or lumbar segments of the spinal cord. |
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has exact synonym |
Paralysis of all four limbs Quadriplegia |
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has_alternative_id |
HP:0010552 |
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id |
HP:0002445 |
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label |
Tetraplegia |
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notation |
HP:0002445 |
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prefLabel |
Tetraplegia |
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subClassOf |