| 单词 | locked-in syndrome |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslocked-in syndrome locked-in syndrome n. Medicine a condition in which the body and most of the muscles of the face are paralysed and the ability to speak is lost, but consciousness and the ability to blink and to perform certain eye movements are retained.Sometimes described as a state of imprisonment within the body, the condition typically results from a stroke which damages part of the brainstem (the ventral pons). ΚΠ 1966 F. Plum & J. B. Posner Diagnosis Stupor & Coma iii. 93 This constellation of alert wakefulness accompanied by mute tetraplegia of brainstem origin we have termed ‘the locked-in syndrome’ to distinguish it from akinetic mutism, which is properly a form of coma. 1997 J. Leggatt tr. J. D. Bauby Diving-Bell & Butterfly 12 You survive, but survive with what is so aptly known as ‘locked-in syndrome’. Paralysed from head to toe, the patient is imprisoned inside his own body, his mind intact, but unable to speak or move. 2009 Independent 27 Nov. 44/2 I read with interest your coverage of Ron Houben, the Belgian student wrongly diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for 23 years before being correctly identified as a sufferer of ‘locked-in syndrome’. < as lemmas |
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