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quadriplegic .
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Tetraplegic is the correct term for quadriplegic -- something about mixing Latin and Greek root words being wrong -- but every time I use "tetraplegic" I have to explain what it is?
Cat 'Aww!', woman as construct, crossdressing and Intersex/DSD issues Elizabeth McClung 2010
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Jamie Merrett, a 37-year-old tetraplegic patient, suffered brain damage when his ventilator was switched off by mistake at his home in Devizes, Wiltshire last year.
Nurse switched off patient's life support by mistake Matthew Weaver 2010
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But having assisted the suicide of tetraplegic boyfriend Jackson, Aaron had to deal with the minor inconvenience of standing trial for his murder.
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Allister Luiters, who was left tetraplegic after an off-duty officer shot him in 1995, could now apply for interim payments, said Chief Justice Pius Langa.
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On the major diagnostic points alone, Theresa Schiavo was not tetraplegic and could breathe unaided, but seemed not to have retained the ability to think.
The Case of Theresa Schiavo Didion, Joan 2005
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Because of the shooting he is a tetraplegic who has lost the use of his legs and has only retained partial use of one arm.
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Her piece Spinal Chords was inspired by the story of Melanie Reid, The Times journalist who suffered a fall from a horse in 2010, and now has to endure the almost-immobile life of a tetraplegic.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Ivan Hewett 2012
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Her new text speaks of black despair, the tomb-like silence of the tetraplegic ward, where no limbs ever move, the grief of being bereaved from one's body.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Ivan Hewett 2012
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Marie Dedieu, who was tetraplegic, needed to take pills every six hours but her abductors refused well-wishers' offers to bring her prescription to where she was being held.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mike Pflanz 2011
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Frankly, if I was a tetraplegic with money … what else am I going to do with it?
Kiwiblog 2010
dontcry commented on the word tetraplegic
I just saw this word used in a journal I'm working on. Why would someone use this word instead of 'paraplegic?'
October 6, 2008
yarb commented on the word tetraplegic
Isn't paraplegic having either the arms or the legs disabled? Tetraplegic I assume is all four limbs.
October 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word tetraplegic
Quadriplegic.
October 6, 2008
dontcry commented on the word tetraplegic
Sorry. I meant quadriplegic. So, why?
October 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word tetraplegic
The Tripods are coming.
October 6, 2008
yarb commented on the word tetraplegic
Oh right. Just to be different, I suppose. I think I prefer tetraplegic.
October 6, 2008