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Paraplegia is derived from the Greek. It means literally ‘a stroke on one side’ or ‘to strike at the side’ and originally indicated the condition called hemiplegia.
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Renal failure in Paraplegia, Tribe and Silver, Pitmans, London, 1969.
Spinal Cord Injuries, Sir Ludwig Guttmann, Blackwell Scientific Publications, London, 1973.
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Silver, J.R. (1977). Paraplegia. In: Mattingly, S. (eds) Rehabilitation Today. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7437-4_25
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