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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
paraplegic
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His spinal cord was severed, and he became a paraplegic.
▪ There were so many stories going around about people who had only looked at a tab before becoming immediately paraplegic or dead.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paraplegic

Paraplegia \Par`a*ple"gi*a\, Paraplegy \Par"a*ple`gy\, n. [NL. paraplegia, fr. Gr. ? hemiplegia, fr. ? to strike at the side; para` beside + ? to strike: cf. F. parapl['e]gie.] (Med.) Palsy of the lower half of the body on both sides, caused usually by disease of the spinal cord. -- Par`a*pleg"ic, a.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
paraplegic

c.1822; see paraplegia + -ic. The noun meaning "paraplegic person" is first recorded 1890. An earlier adjectival form was paraplectic (1660s).

Wiktionary
paraplegic

a. of, related to, or suffering from paraplegia n. A person who suffers from paraplegia.

WordNet
paraplegic
  1. adj. suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord

  2. n. a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down)

Usage examples of "paraplegic".

Michael needed to stay in character as the paraplegic Clyde Buford in the event of an unexpected entry.

I had no comeback, even if he slipped up and turned me into a paraplegic or a retard.

The words dared Annette to probe into the sexuality of a paraplegic, which, being old-world in that sense, Annette would not do.

She tucked her hands under the pillows--lots of pillows--more pillows than a normal person would have--pillows that a paraplegic needed to hold one position or another.

Heliotrope was a paraplegic pharmacologist from Berkeley, beautiful and brilliant, and a bathtub chemist of underground renown.

Among the casualties was a retarded paraplegic named Richard Daniels, killed by a blow to the abdomen.

Luke was a paraplegic, not because of any accident to his spine, but because his spinal nerves were dying of old age.

There were so many stories going around about people who had only looked at a tab before becoming immediately paraplegic or dead.

They were going into break-neck paraplegic country, and they did it for love.

The original complaint had alleged that Herb Hall, a truck driver, had suffered severe burns and been rendered a paraplegic when the sixteen-wheeler he was driving for a hauling company had lost its brakes on a downhill grade.

Example: One paraplegic sees only misery, another plans on going to graduate school.

Colombiano pistolero came in, and he really took to her, she being about twice his height and weight, and she was tired of waiting on a paraplegic crip, so now he has her stashed down in the Hotel Mutiny there, eating chocolates and watching the soaps, while he is out around town gunning down the competition.

Heliotrope was a paraplegic pharmacologist from Berkeley, beautiful and brilliant, and a bathtub chemist of underground renown.

He had taken a paraplegic young student, bullied the makers of an experimental Moto-Chair into giving the youngster one—then bullied the dean of the Meyasor State Medical College into admitting the boy.

With a sudden sweep of his hand, Quorl knocked the paraplegic claw away.