| 释义 |
quadriplegic, a. and n. Med.|kwɒdrɪˈpliːdʒɪk|
Also quadra-, quadru-.
[f. prec. + -ic.]
A. adj. Suffering from quadriplegia.
B. n. A quadriplegic person.
1921Brain XLIV. 438 Three of the quadriplegic patients..showed extensive reflex reactions involving the trunk and limbs. 1961Webster, Quadriplegic, n. 1962Lancet 6 Jan. 3/1 The patient emerging from stupor was at first mute and quadriplegic. 1965Listener 27 May 772/2 Young girls..both of whom, as a result of their injuries, became quadriplegics, that is they became permanently paralysed from the neck downwards. 1969Age (Melbourne) 24 May 5/6 A Geelong man who became a quadraplegic following a car accident in October 1967, was awarded damages of $100,000 yesterday. 1971Daily Tel. 25 May 3/7 He was left a quadruplegic and will spend the rest of his days in a wheelchair. 1971Rand Daily Mail 4 Sept. 13/4 The youth injured his spine in the accident and was totally paralysed from the neck down. Like all quadriplegics, he is tied to a wheelchair existence for life. 1974Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. liv. 4/1 The quadriplegic patient presents greater problems than those of the paraplegic with regard to rehabilitation and resettlement. 1975‘M. Fonteyn’ Autobiogr. ii. x. 241 It was a long time before I realized what everyone else knew perfectly well—that Tito was incapacitated and probably a quadruplegic for life. 1980Times 8 Feb. 4/7 He is a quadriplegic after having sustained multiple injuries in a fall. |