ophthalmoplegia
noun
ophthalmoplegia is a noun meaning “A complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-P-H-T-H-A-L-M-O-P-L-E-G-I-A, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ophthalmoplegia is ophthalmoplegias.
What does ophthalmoplegia mean?
noun
- 1
A complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ophthalmoplegia
- ophthalmoplegias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ophthalmoplegia?
Ophthalmoplegia appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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).
Where does ophthalmoplegia come from?
From ophthalmo- + -plegia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).