quadriplegic
[kwod-ruh-plee-jik, -plej-ik]
- a person with quadriplegia.
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Origin of quadriplegic
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disabled, lame, paraplegic, quadriplegic, immobile, inactive, incapacitated, insensible, numb, palsied, paralyzed, powerless, diplegicExamples from the Web for quadriplegic
Contemporary Examples
And the day-to-day existence of a quadriplegic is far crueler than most people imagine.
He wound up a quadriplegic with restricted vision who could only communicate by screaming.
But to watch her suffer for three years, she was a quadriplegic, it was a very helpless feeling for me.
Historical Examples
We have all witnessed some of these applications: sensors connected to unharmed nervous terminals allow the quadriplegic to move.
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
quadriplegic
- of, relating to, or afflicted with qudriplegia
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- a person afflicted with quadriplegia
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Word Origin and History for quadriplegic
adj.
also quadraplegic, 1897, from quadriplegia + -ic. A correct, all-Greek formation would be *tessaraplegic. The noun is first attested 1912, from the adjective.
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