hemiparesis
noun
hemiparesis is a noun meaning “Muscular weakness that affects only one side of the body” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-E-M-I-P-A-R-E-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hemiparesis is hemipareses.
What does hemiparesis mean?
noun
- 1
Muscular weakness that affects only one side of the body.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hemiparesis
- hemipareses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hemiparesis?
Hemiparesis appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hemiparesis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense muscular weakness that affects only one side of the body:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Hemiparesia |
| Spanish | hemiparesia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hemiparesis come from?
From hemi- + paresis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).