. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . self or the nervous influencecontrolling it; or false, if it is due merely to an inhibition of the mus-cular function produced by a disease of the muscle or joint that causespain upon movement. Paralysis is classified, according to the part affected, into monoplegia,when one extremity is involved ; hemiplegia, when half of the body isinvolved ; paraplegia, when two symmetrical extremities are involved(this term is usually restricted clinically to paralysis of both legs); para-plegia cruralis, if the legs are affected; pa
. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . self or the nervous influencecontrolling it; or false, if it is due merely to an inhibition of the mus-cular function produced by a disease of the muscle or joint that causespain upon movement. Paralysis is classified, according to the part affected, into monoplegia,when one extremity is involved ; hemiplegia, when half of the body isinvolved ; paraplegia, when two symmetrical extremities are involved(this term is usually restricted clinically to paralysis of both legs); para-plegia cruralis, if the legs are affected; paraplegia brachialis, if the armsare affected ; diplegia, when two extremities are affected without in-volvement of the trunk. [Clinically, this is sometimes applied, althoughincorrectly, to paralysis of both arms {diplegia brachialis) or of bothsides of the face (diplegia facialis).] Crossed paralysis is a term appliedto paralysis of one side of the face and the opposite side of the paralyses, or palsies, is the term used when only small groups of PLATE k-jTd These figures have been devised by Wichmann in order to show the distribution of the sensory areas corres-ponding to the segments of the spinal cord The colors used correspond to those of the normal spectrum red=I^nge7e- ° and violet, with brown ; respectively—the first, second, third, fourth, etc fhfmen im e ■ PorV°n °{the sPinaI cord-cervical, dorsal, lumbar and sacral. The last four segments inthe ™ai?S^n aue !Kft Whlte- The advantage °f the plate is that it shows very clearly the overlapping ofthe Sjfor![ bltween^hTtw ™°~~r*t--~-y ^e_rri°fft??- Th,e dark heavy P] on the arms indicateand that from the lower portio and lumbar a lines between them indicate that both segments innervate the areas involved. s SPASTIC PARALYSIS. 293 muscles are affected. Multiple paralyses, or palsies, is employed whenseveral parts of the body are involved at the same time. It may belimit
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