Phrase guide

cerebral palsy

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A group of non-progressive, non-contagious conditions, caused by brain damage before birth or during infancy, characterized by impairment of muscular coordination.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, neurology, neuroscience, pathology, sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

a loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: spastic paralysis

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: brain disorder, encephalopathy, brain disease

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Across languages

Translations

83 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: paraliza cerebrale — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Arabic: شلل دماغي (šalal dimāḡiyyan) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Armenian: մանկական ուղեղային կաթված (mankakan uġeġayin katʻvac) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Azerbaijani: serebral iflic — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Basque: garun-paralisia — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Bulgarian: церебрална парализа (cerebralna paraliza) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Catalan: paràlisi cerebral — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Chinese Cantonese: 腦性麻痺 /脑性麻痹 (nou5 sing3 maa4 bei3) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Chinese Cantonese: 腦癱 /脑瘫 (nou5 taan1) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Chinese Mandarin: 腦麻痺 /脑麻痹 (nǎomábì) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Chinese Mandarin: 腦性麻痺 /脑性麻痹 (nǎoxìng mábì) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Chinese Mandarin: 大腦性麻痺 /大脑性麻痹 (dànǎoxìng mábì) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Chinese Mandarin: 腦癱 /脑瘫 (nǎotān) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Czech: dětská mozková obrna — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Czech: mozková obrna — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Danish: cerebral parese — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Danish: spastisk lammelse — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Dutch: cerebrale parese — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Dutch: hersenverlamming — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Esperanto: cerba paralizo — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Estonian: laste tserebraalparalüüs — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Finnish: CP-vamma — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Finnish: CP-oireyhtymä — group of non-contagious conditions
  • French: paralysie cérébrale — group of non-contagious conditions
  • French: infirmité motrice cérébrale — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Galician: parálise cerebral — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Georgian: ცერებრალური დამბლა (cerebraluri dambla) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • German: Zerebralparese — group of non-contagious conditions
  • German: infantile Zerebralparese — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Greek: εγκεφαλική παράλυση (egkefalikí parálysi) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Hebrew: שיתוק מוחי — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Hebrew: שִׁתּוּק מוֹחִי (shitúk mokhí) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Hebrew: שיתוק מוחין שִׁתּוּק מוֹחִיָן — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Hindi: प्रमस्तिष्क अंगघात (pramastiṣk aṅgghāt) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Hungarian: agyi bénulás — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Hungarian: cerebrális parézis — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Icelandic: heilalömun — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Indonesian: lumpuh otak — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Irish: pairilis cheirbreach — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Italian: paralisi cerebrale — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Italian: paralisi cerebrale infantile — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Japanese: 脳性麻痺 (nōsei mahi) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Korean: 뇌성 마비 (noeseong mabi) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Northern Kurdish: falinca mejî — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Kyrgyz: балдардын церебралдык шалы (baldardın tserebraldık şalı) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Latin: paralysis cerebralis — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Latvian: cerebrālā parēze — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Latvian: cerebrālā trieka — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Lithuanian: cerebrinis paralyžius — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Macedonian: церебрална парализа (cerebralna paraliza) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Malay: palsi serebrum — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Malayalam: സെറിബ്രൽ പാൾസി (seṟibral pāḷsi) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Maltese: paraliżi ċerebrali — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Manx: anlheiltys kerebellagh — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Marathi: प्रमस्तिष्क घात (pramastiṣka ghāt) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Mongolian: тархины саажилт (tarxiny saažilt) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Norwegian Bokmål: cerebral parese — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: cerebral parese — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Odia: ସେରେବ୍ରାଲ୍ ପାଲ୍ସି (serebrāl pālsi) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Persian: فلج مغزی (falaj-e maġzi) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Polish: porażenie mózgowe — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Polish: mózgowe porażenie dziecięce — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Portuguese: paralisia cerebral — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Romanian: paralizie cerebrală — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Russian: церебра́льный парали́ч (cerebrálʹnyj paralíč) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Russian: де́тский церебра́льный парали́ч (détskij cerebrálʹnyj paralíč) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Serbo-Croatian: церебрална парализа — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Serbo-Croatian: cerebralna paraliza — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Slovak: detská mozgová obrna — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Slovak: mozgová obrna — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Slovene: cerebralna paraliza — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Slovene: možganska paraliza — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Spanish: parálisis cerebral — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Swahili: kupooza kwa ubongo — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Swedish: cerebral pares — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Tamil: பெருமூளை வாதம் (perumūḷai vātam) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Thai: อัมพาตสมองใหญ่ (am-má-pâat sà-mŏng yài) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Turkish: serebral palsi — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Ukrainian: церебр́альний пара́ліч (cerebŕalʹnyj parálič) — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Urdu: دماغی فالج — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Uzbek: bolalar falaji — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Vietnamese: bại não — group of non-contagious conditions
  • Welsh: parlys yr ymennydd — group of non-contagious conditions