paraplegic
/parəˈpliːdʒɪk
/adjective
Affected by or relating to paralysis of the legs and lower body: a paraplegic war veteran a paraplegic hospital...
- I shouldn't have been taking my discomfort out on someone who had just discovered they were paraplegic, no matter how bad I did feel.
- Being paraplegic isn't contagious.
- Think of a husband caring for a wife with Alzheimer's, or a mother caring for an adult child rendered paraplegic in a car accident.
noun
A person affected by paralysis of the legs and lower body: researchers hope the treatment might enable paraplegics to walk again...
- He has walked in nine countries, many times, just to raise funds for paraplegics who cannot afford medical treatment.
- Athletes, or others whose physical activity was at the center of their self-conception, are more likely to find a paraplegic's life intolerable.
- A wheelchair-bound paraplegic in constant pain sipped, through a straw, some water containing the barbiturate.
