tetraplegian.
/tɛtrəˈpliːdʒɪə/ Pathology.
= quadriplegia n.
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mollification?a1425
hemiplexy1576
paraplegia1583
dead palsy?1594
hemiplegia1600
sideration1612
astrobolism1651
paresis1668
hemiplegy1755
general paralysis1820
refixation1825
Pott's disease1827
pamplegia1842
pamplegy1857
crossed palsy1858
transverse palsy1858
neuroparalysis1859
general paresis1862
athetosis1871
monoplegia1876
spastic paralysis1877
Landry's paralysis1882
Little's disease1884
cerebral palsy1889
paraparesis1890
hemiparesis1893
Pott's paraplegia1895
sleep-palsy1896
quadriplegia1897
pressure paralysis1899
Bell's palsy1904
taboparesis1910
tetraplegia1911
tick paralysis1914
quadriparesis1948
Landry–Guillain–Barré syndrome1957
1911 F. S. Arnold tr. Bing 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.
1964 J. 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.
1974 A. 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.
Derivatives
tetraˈplegic adj. and n. = quadriplegic adj. and n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > palsy or paralysis > types of
paraplectic1661
hemiplegiac1802
hemiplegic1822
paraplegic1822
hemiplegian1842
athetoid1875
apraxic1892
monoplegic1896
quadriplegic1897
athetotic1898
spastic1903
tetraplegic1911
quadriparetic1956
cerebral-palsied1961
Tasered1976
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > palsy or paralysis > types of > person
general paralytica1398
hemiplegiac1802
paretic1881
hemiplegic1890
paraplegic1890
tetraplegic1911
quadriplegic1948
para1961
quad1974
1911 F. S. Arnold tr. Bing 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).
1939 W. Haymaker tr. R. Bing Textbk. Nerv. Dis. xix. 523 The contractures give way to flaccid paralyses. The latter may be monoplegic, hemiplegic, paraplegic, even tetraplegic.
1964 J. J. Walsh Understanding Paraplegia xvi. 110 Many tetraplegics..are capable of driving a properly converted car with automatic gear box.
1977 Lancet 7 May 1013/2 A strain Ps[eudomonas] œruginosa was isolated from a catheter specimen of urine from a tetraplegic patient.
1979 Daily 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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