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It refers to the paralysis of all four limbs and typically the torso as well, due to spinal cord injury or disease. Example: After his accident, he was left with quadriplegia and had to use a wheelchair to get around.
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quadriplegia
noun
Paralysis from the neck down
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The plan is to perch all the functions of a smartphone on the bridge of the user's nose.This, the company thinks, will be great for those who cannot get the most out of normal phones; some of its explorers have quadriplegia.
The case centred on Timothy W., who was a multiply handicapped and profoundly intellectually disabled child with complex developmental disabilities, spastic quadriplegia, cerebral palsy, and cortical blindness.
He started to develop early signs of quadriplegia as the tumor grew.
But once again, it had a 20% chance of quadriplegia.
The counselors were driving on the Meadowbrook Parkway en route to Camp Anchor, a town-run seaside camp for about 600 adults and children with disabilities including quadriplegia, autism and Down syndrome, said Kate Murray, the Hempstead town supervisor.
A cancer patient's suffering isn't necessarily more unbearable than the more indefinite agony of someone living with multiple sclerosis or quadriplegia or manic depression.
He was always a very physical person, and he viewed his quadriplegia as yet another physical challenge, and the exercises as kind of exhilarating.
It was here, also in the '60s, that Ed Roberts — a student with quadriplegia — became an outspoken advocate of the cause.
Updated, 2 44 p.m. | The New York Court of Claims has awarded nearly $16 million to a state prison inmate, saying the man did not receive proper medical care from prison doctors after suffering a head injury in an inmate basketball game that ultimately led to his quadriplegia.
There are three million people afflicted with MND and quadriplegia.
Her other medical problems include dwarfism, spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy, epilepsy, scoliosis and cortical visual impairment.
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