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tetraplegia Path.|tɛtrəˈpliːdʒɪə|
[f. tetra- + paraplegia.]
= quadriplegia.
1911F. S. Arnold tr. Bing's Compendium of Regional Diagnosis iia. ii. 105 The pyramids are in such close apposition to each other in the medulla, that minimal lesions may cause a condition of tetraplegia. 1964J. J. Walsh Understanding Paraplegia ii. 6 When the arms are involved it is more correct..to use the term ‘tetraplegia’ or ‘quadriplegia’, and throughout this book the former word will be adopted. 1974A. Henry in R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery xvi. 349 The incidence of tetraplegia is high in this injury as the spine may have angled acutely..and thus severely pinched the spinal cord.
Hence tetraˈplegic a. and n. = quadriplegic a. and n.
1911F. S. Arnold tr. Bing's Compendium of Regional Diagnosis ia. iii. 36 In a complete transverse lesion of the [spinal] cord in the upper cervical region the simultaneous paralysis and anæsthesia affect the four extremities and trunk (tetraplegic type). 1939W. Haymaker Bing's Textbk. Nervous Dis. xix. 523 The contractures give way to flaccid paralyses. The latter may be monoplegic, hemiplegic, paraplegic, even tetraplegic. 1964J. J. Walsh Understanding Paraplegia xvi. 110 Many tetraplegics..are capable of driving a properly converted car with automatic gear box. 1977Lancet 7 May 1013/2 A strain Ps[eudomonas] œruginosa was isolated from a catheter specimen of urine from a tetraplegic patient. 1979Daily Tel. 27 Jan. 18 As a tetraplegic may I thank your Health Services Correspondent..for continued interest in what he describes as the ‘shambles’ at Stoke Mandeville. |