In a definition essay, you explain the meaning of a certain term by giving a detailed description of it, and support your definition with clear examples or facts. Such explanations are needed if a term is special, abstract, disputed or does not have a common meaning.
Dysphagia may be caused by traumatic injuries to the head, neck, or chest and result from accidents or iatrogenic causes. In the latter category, both planned and inadvertent injuries to cranial nerves are common. Many accident victims have involvement of multiple sites.
What Causes Paraplegia? Paraplegia has a host of causes, ranging from the local to the cerebral. Most commonly, paraplegia is the result of accidents, which occur most often in the young adult male population, between 15 and 35 years, and cause traumatic injury to the spinal cord. This accounts for more than three-quarters of the total cases of spinal injury.