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paraplegia

impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q1049655
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Summary

paraplegia is a class of disease[1]. paraplegia draws 9,781 Wikipedia views per month (class of disease category, ranking #241 of 1,968).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: symptom or sign[3]
  • Subclass of: central nervous system disease[4], paralysis[5]
  • Commons category: Paraplegia[6]
  • ICPC 2 ID: N99[7]
  • Described by source: Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[8], The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[9]
  • ICD-9-CM: 344.1[10]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C50687[11]
  • Different from: tetraplegia[12]
  • Health specialty: neurology[13]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_607[14], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:607[15], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0001258[16], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000349[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[18]

Why It Matters

paraplegia has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] paraplegia is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Apolinario Mabini Boris Kustodiev Chinua Achebe disease Franklin Delano Roosevelt George Wallace Greg Abbott Larry Flynt Lenín Moreno Ludwig Guttmann neurology Robert Wyatt Susan Peters Wolfgang Schäuble

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 22d ago · فيصل · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia, The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)"
  2. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → central nervous system disease, paralysis
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  3. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0375207-paraplegie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0375207-paraplegie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Health specialty → neurology
    Instance of → class of disease, symptom or sign
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007563155705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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