-plegia, -pleg, -plegic, -plegy, plego-, pleg-

Paralysis of the tongue; usually, unilateral, which may result from cerebral hemorrhage, disease, or injury that involves the hypoglossal nerve.

A reference to paralysis of the tongue.

Muscle weakness, or paralysis, without loss of reflex activity, in which no organic lesion can be demonstrated.

Paralysis affecting only the sphincter muscle (ringlike band of muscle fibers) of the eye pupil and the ciliary muscle (smooth muscle).

Facial paralysis or paralysis of the velum pendulum palati (soft palate at the roof of the mouth) and the muscles forming the anterior pillars of the fauces (narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue).

The inability to speak because of paralysis of speech muscles other than the tongue muscles.

Paralysis of the laryngeal muscles.

Any paralysis of the speech organs.

1. The inability to move a single limb or a single group of muscles.
2. Paralysis of a limb.

A reference to or characterized by monoplegia.

1. Paralysis of the motor nerves of the eye.
2. Paralysis of the ocular muscles, innervated by the oculomotor nerves.

Paralysis of muscles of the soft palate.