(medicine) Spastic paralysis of the arms and legs caused by diffuse lesions of the cerebral cortex. A form of cerebral palsy, possibly due to prenatal or perinatal hypoxia or other injuries resulting in atrophic lobar sclerosis, or to congenital or developmental abnormalities.
spastic diplegia
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