Symptom
Paralysis
A complete loss of motor function, and often of associated sensation, in a body part due to dysfunction of the central or peripheral nervous system, resulting in inability to initiate or execute voluntary movement. Possible causes are stroke, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, polio, meningitis, nerve compression, or neurotoxins.
Also known as: Plegia, Palsy
Referencing diagnoses
- Acute extremity ischemia
- Acute intermittent porphyria
- Amyloidosis
- Aortic dissection
- Bell's Palsy
- Brain abscess
- Brain tumor
- Compartment syndrome
- Electrical injury
- Encephalitis
- Endocarditis
- Epilepsy
- Fracture
- Herpes zoster
- Hydrocephalus
- Hyperkalemia
- Hypermagnesemia
- Hypokalemia
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Lead toxicity
- Multiple sclerosis
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Polyneuropathy
- Prostate cancer
- Ruptured aortic aneurysm
- Shock
- Stroke
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Transient ischemic attack
Note: Lists existing diagnoses in Diagnotize only.