Definition of "tetraparesis" []

• Weakness of the muscles of all four limbs (noun)

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• "Russian orphans don't typically suffer from a deficit of medical care: If anything, physicians tend to overdiagnose them with dozens of labels, such as intestinal dysbacteriosis, pyramidal insufficiency and spastic tetraparesis, which have no meaning to my American colleagues (who, upon examining the children, often find them to be healthy)."
• "She then showed a sudden-onset loss of consciousness, horizontal and vertical gaze palsy [unable to move eyes up-down or sideways], tetraparesis [paralysis of all four extremities] and bilateral miosis"
• "In our present case, the patient's constellation of symptoms (sudden-onset loss of consciousness, horizontal and vertical gaze palsy, tetraparesis and bilateral miosis and coma) is highly indicative of a brainstem lesion most likely of vascular origin."