NOUN
- a loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth
How To Use cerebral palsy In A Sentence
- It is a tactical target sport played by wheelchair athletes with cerebral palsy and other conditions. Times, Sunday Times
- The little girl has dystonic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which means she is confined to a wheelchair and needs 24-hour care.
- Alexandra has cerebral palsy, is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from frequent epileptic fits.
- The hypothesis of the study was that acupuncture would reduce muscle hypertonicity in children with cerebral palsy.
- At 18 months, he was diagnosed with spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy that affects balance as well as movement below the waist. The Seattle Times
- Athletes who do not have cerebral palsy but conditions such as muscular dystrophy, spina bifida and tetraplegia. Times, Sunday Times
- In 1955 he also isolated the virus which causes cytomegalic inclusion disease in infants and, after working for five years on these diseases, he was able to show that the human foetus, while it is in the uterus, is particularly susceptible to attack by these viruses and that, if the foetus survives attack by them, the infant is often born with severe damage to its brain which causes mental retardation and cerebral palsy. Thomas H. Weller - Biography
- It is a tactical target sport played by wheelchair athletes with cerebral palsy and other conditions. Times, Sunday Times
- I knew my athetoid cerebral palsy would kick into high gear and my head control would vanish, leaving me bobbing for invisible apples. Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » May
- While at the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas next week, I’ll be signing copies of my autobiography I’ll Do It Myself in which I intimately share living with cerebral palsy to show others that cp is not a death sentence, but rather a life sentence: Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » November
