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🦽 A paralyzed person 🦽 Paralyzed below waist
paraplegic

paraplegic

8 6.8
A person who has no movement or feeling in the lower body because of a spine injury
  • noun
  • /ˌpærəˈpliːdʒɪk/
translation icon : parapléjico
  • With proper rehabilitation, there is every reason to believe that the patient... ...will adjust, be useful... ...and yes, have a rewarding life as a paraplegic.

Let's assume she was a paraplegic yes, and it wasn't conversion, it it wasn't something that she was creating.

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Examples

  • You won't be seeing much of him until you're out of isolation because he's a paraplegic and he's in a Moto-chair.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Buck Rowen, as I'm sure you heard, is a paraplegic.

    Animal Factory (2000)

  • I was the first paraplegic model in London Fashion Week ever.

  • My mother was a paraplegic.

    Garden State (2004)

  • Look, Mac, I'm a paraplegic.

    The Killing (1956)

  • And I think we can argue that paraplegics can still be productive in our virtual society.

  • In 1975, a young paraplegic became the first person to compete in the Boston Athletic Association Marathon in a wheelchair.

    Academic text (1990)

  • I even know a very lovely paraplegic who's half Puerto Rican.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • I had no idea how much skill and patience a paraplegic has to acquire, the constant energy he has to expend to discharge his bodily functions.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • At the age of 21, she was in a car accident and became a paraplegic.

Synonyms

paralytic
vsparaplegic
3 8.8

A person who cannot move part or all of their body

refers specifically to someone paralyzed only below the waist

Antonyms

able-bodied
30 4.2

A person who is physically strong and healthy

Surface Forms

paraplegic singular
paraplegics plural

Morphology

paraplegic = paraplegia (semi-transparent) = paraplegia + ic

Formed by standard adjective derivation from the noun 'paraplegia' using the productive suffix '-ic', so the relation to the medical condition is predictable.

Etymology

Paraplegic comes from the Greek parts para- meaning 'beside' and -plegia meaning 'a strike' or 'paralysis', and it is related to the word paralysis. So a paraplegic (the noun) is a person who has been 'struck' with paralysis in the lower body and cannot move the lower half of their body.