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US
/ˌkwɑdɹəˈpɫidʒɪk/
]
[ UK /kwˌɒdɹɪplˈiːdʒɪk/ ]
[ UK /kwˌɒdɹɪplˈiːdʒɪk/ ]
NOUN
- a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs
How To Use quadriplegic In A Sentence
- The little girl has dystonic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which means she is confined to a wheelchair and needs 24-hour care.
- He was expected to be blind, deaf, unable to speak, and quadriplegic.
- He dived into the water and hit a sandbank and was rendered a quadriplegic.
- The devices might allow quadriplegics to move limbs again by sending signals from the brain to various muscles.
- He plays a quadriplegic who is paralysed from the neck down.
- He is now quadriplegic and confined to a wheelchair.
- The settlement is geared towards looking after this person who might be quadriplegic for the rest of their lives.
- The world's best-known quadriplegic scientist showed off his "new toy" in a Facebook post this week.
- The patient is a 43-year-old quadriplegic woman with a history of urinary bladder calculi.
- For the next 29 years, he lived the life of a quadriplegic.