Brown-Séquard’s syndrome /broun″sākärz″/ [Charles E. Brown-Séquard, French physiologist, 1817–1894] , a traumatic neurological disorder resulting from compression or transection of one side of the spinal cord, above the tenth thoracic vertebrae, characterized by spastic paralysis and loss of postural sense (proprioception) on the body’s injured side, and loss of the senses of pain and heat on the other side of the body.
