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Definition of Paraplegics
1. paraplegic [n] - See also: paraplegic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paraplegics
Literary usage of Paraplegics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Review of Neurology and Psychiatry (1904)
"THE MODE Of TURNING, IN WALKING, OF ORGANIC HEMIPLEGICS AND SPASTIC paraplegics.
By LEONARD J. KIDD, MD THERE is a reference in the Journal of Nervous and ..."
2. Physical Fitness: A Guide for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury by David F. Apple, Jr. (1996)
"Maximal exercise responses of tetraplegics and paraplegics. ... Hjeltnes N, Vokac Z.
Circulatory strain in every day life of paraplegics. ..."
3. Behind Bars in Brazil by Joanne Mariner, James Cavallaro (1998)
"[A] 11 the paraplegics use a type of homemade catheter ( . . . a plastic tube
running ... There are paraplegics who were assured by doctors at the public ..."
4. Pensions and the Principles of Their Evaluation by Llewellyn Jones Llewellyn, Arthur Bassett Jones (1919)
"As to the mode of procedure to be adopted in the case of paraplegics it is laid
down that " the Local Committee should first ascertain whether adequate ..."
5. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"paraplegics, in general, can handle a wheelchair adequately outdoors, although
rough ground, gravel, or grass may pose insurmountable problems. ..."
6. Transactions of the Commonwealth Club of California by Commonwealth Club of California (1903)
"UNDER THE existing provisions of the California Constitution paraplegics are
granted a $5000 property tax exemption, without limitation as to the total ..."
7. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1851)
"In 2, (paraplegics) steel only acted on the sensation. In 8, (four of them being
paraplegics, or hemiplegics,) copper had no action ; neither had gold, ..."
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