閉とじ込こめ症しょう候こう群ぐん

noun

locked-in syndrome

Medical term for a condition where a patient is fully conscious but cannot move or communicate verbally due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles.

• 閉とじ込こめ症しょう候こう群ぐんの患かん者じゃは、眼がん球きゅうの動うごきだけで意い思しを伝つたえることがある。

  Patients with locked-in syndrome sometimes communicate solely through eye movements.