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quadriplegic

/kwod-ruh-plee-jik, -plej-ik/US // ˌkwɒd rəˈpli dʒɪk, -ˈplɛdʒ ɪk //UK // (ˌkwɒdrɪˈpliːdʒɪk) pathol //

四肢瘫痪,四肢瘫痪者,四肢瘫痪的人,四肢麻痹

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Pathology.

    • : a person with quadriplegia.

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Examples

  • One patient, a childhood friend of Duntsch’s, went in for a spinal operation with someone he trusted and woke up a quadriplegic after the doctor damaged his vertebral artery.

  • My best friend is a C-4/C-5 quadriplegic who depends on around-the-clock care.

  • And the day-to-day existence of a quadriplegic is far crueler than most people imagine.

  • He wound up a quadriplegic with restricted vision who could only communicate by screaming.

  • But to watch her suffer for three years, she was a quadriplegic, it was a very helpless feeling for me.

  • She currently splits her time between her career and being a caretaker for her brother, a recent quadriplegic.

  • We have all witnessed some of these applications: sensors connected to unharmed nervous terminals allow the quadriplegic to move.