quadriplegic
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adj
- Of, related to, or suffering from quadriplegia.
noun
- One who suffers from quadriplegia.
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Etymology
From quadri- (of Latin origins) and -plegic, from Ancient Greek πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike”); probably patterned after paraplegic from the Ancient Greek παραπληγή (paraplēgḗ, “the paralysis of half of the body”).
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