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US
/ˌpɛɹəˈpɫɛɡɪk, ˌpɛɹəˈpɫidʒɪk/
]
[ UK /pˌæɹəplˈiːdʒɪk/ ]
[ UK /pˌæɹəplˈiːdʒɪk/ ]
NOUN
- a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down)
ADJECTIVE
- suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord
How To Use paraplegic In A Sentence
- He is paraplegic after being shot by gunmen while on assignment overseas.
- Never maudlin, never cloying, the story is that of a judo champion struck down in a road accident and almost overnight becoming a paraplegic in a wheelchair.
- Aside from paraplegic conditions due to disease of the cord or the lumbosacral plexus, and monoplegic affections resultant from disturbances of this plexus, paralysis of certain nerves are occasionally encountered. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
- We are fully aware of what makes a flower red rather than white, what it is that prevents a dwarf from growing taller, or what goes wrong in a paraplegic or a thalassemic. The Memory Hole
- And the occasional paraplegic yachtie, sailing single-handed across oceans, is simply superhuman. Times, Sunday Times
- She plays a compassionate nurse with a paraplegic fiancé.
- Joni Eareckson a teenager in a diving accident, has been a paraplegic for over 40 years.
- NEW YORK Michael J. Fox says the timing was perfect when Denis Leary asked him last year to star in a five-episode arc of Rescue Me as a bad-tempered, drug-abusing paraplegic. Denis Leary revives 'Rescue Me' with friend Michael J. Fox
- There was a spinal injury ward with 26 beds for paraplegic patients.
- The word Paralympic was originally a pun combining "paraplegic" and "Olympic," however with the inclusion of other disability groups and the close associations with the Olympic Movement, it now represents "parallel" and "Olympic" to illustrate how the two movements exist side by side. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
