locked-in syndrome

noun

1. a condition in which a person is conscious but unable to move any part of the body except the eyes: results from damage to the brainstem

Example Sentences

The scientists brimmed with excitement over the potentially life-altering medical applications of such a device — restoring communication to people with locked-in syndrome, for instance, whose near full-body paralysis made talking impossible.

From Salon

Adam, Hannah and their 20-year-old twin children, Mia and John, face struggles with Eugene that reflect the author’s research into locked-in syndrome.

From Los Angeles Times

This might eventually help patients with locked-in syndrome, who are conscious but cannot move or speak.

From BBC

The system could someday aid individuals who have lost their ability to communicate because of brain injury, stroke, or locked-in syndrome, a type of paralysis in which individuals are conscious but paralyzed.

From Science Magazine

In 1997, readers marveled at the courage and humanity of Jean-Dominique Bauby, a French magazine editor who wrote the memoir “The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly” after a stroke left him profoundly paralyzed, suffering from locked-in syndrome and able to communicate only by blinking one eyelid.

From New York Times