quadriplegic
Americanadjective
noun
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quadriplegics
plural
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of quadriplegic
First recorded in 1960–65; quadripleg(ia) + -ic
Example Sentences
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He fell into a coma, became incontinent and quadriplegic.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
The Javier Bardem-starring film followed the real-life story of Ramón Sampedro, who became quadriplegic after a diving accident and spent nearly 30 years fighting for his own right to die.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2025
That was the message from Elliot Caswell, a 19-year-old die-hard Newcastle United fan with quadriplegic cerebral palsy, when I first met him on a flight in 2019.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2024
But I represented a young Black man who was quadriplegic whose elderly parents tried to help get him an ID several times, unsuccessfully.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2024
I sat one day with a man who’d gone off young and healthy to an overseas deployment, leaving behind a pregnant wife, and had come back quadriplegic, unable to move his arms or legs.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
“There were seven of us high quadriplegics sitting in a circle telling our versions of the same story,” Salvini said, “which was a transformative experience that I wanted to replicate for others in similar situations.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
Of those, 44 were marked as related to paraplegics, quadriplegics, other types of wheelchair users and other assistive-device users.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
"What I really find a lot of pride in is I help quadriplegics all over America," Himan said.
From Fox News ● Oct. 12, 2021
Jackson and his wife visited Nepal last October and, after seeing the stark conditions paraplegics and quadriplegics endure in an otherwise beautiful country, he resolved to make a difference.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2019
Stand-alone eye trackers from Tobii and others can be connected to computers, for example, so that quadriplegics can operate an onscreen keyboard.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2011
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