How To Use Paraplegic In A Sentence
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She was a paraplegic, but she still held a job, most of the money from which her father used for beer.
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‘It is a bike you wear,’ says Bob Vogel, 40, a paraplegic hang-glider pilot who has owned a One-Off for nearly two years.
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The case was brought by a paraplegic who could not make a court date due to lack of elevator access.
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A passenger was injured so badly he will be paraplegic for the rest of his life.
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Being paraplegic isn't contagious.
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In perhaps the most extraordinary case of this kind, Jim Montgomery, a paraplegic immobilized from the waist down, who smoked marijuana to relieve muscle spasms, was arrested in Sayre, Oklahoma, when sheriffs found two ounces of pot in the pouch on the back of his wheelchair.
Reefer Madness
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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.
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Competition is broken into paraplegic, quadriplegic, junior mixed and a Sunday road race.
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Last year rescue calls included a total of four broken backs, with two paraplegic cases and one quadriplegic case.
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The documentary chronicles the intense rivalry between the US and Canadian paraplegic rugby teams.
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She is a neurotic girl who changes hair color with every mood and is making a film about herself, going as far as casting her paraplegic mother as herself.
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The team is made up of sailors who are paraplegics or amputees or blind.
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A wheelchair-bound paraplegic in constant pain sipped, through a straw, some water containing the barbiturate.
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His spinal cord was severed, and he became a paraplegic.
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Objective To study effect of racing training on 54 paraplegic ability of driving wheel chair.
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A paraplegic man has been left high and dry after water pressure was reduced leaving his power shower producing little more than a dribble.
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One patient with an acute abdomen had anuria; in another, the anuria was associated with a paraplegic state.
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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.
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He is a devoted husband who gives his paraplegic wife a massage every night.
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Her husband was described as a paraplegic who had little prospect of returning to his old job.
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She plays a sexy, intelligent, and independent sculptor whose life changes dramatically after a traffic accident leaves her a paraplegic.
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Never maudlin, never cloying, the story is that of a judo champion struck down in a road accident and almost overnight becoming a paraplegic in a wheelchair.
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Aside from paraplegic conditions due to disease of the cord or the lumbosacral plexus, and monoplegic affections resultant from disturbances of this plexus, paralysis of certain nerves are occasionally encountered.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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We are fully aware of what makes a flower red rather than white, what it is that prevents a dwarf from growing taller, or what goes wrong in a paraplegic or a thalassemic.
The Memory Hole
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And the occasional paraplegic yachtie, sailing single-handed across oceans, is simply superhuman.
Times, Sunday Times
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She plays a compassionate nurse with a paraplegic fiancé.
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Joni Eareckson a teenager in a diving accident, has been a paraplegic for over 40 years.
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NEW YORK Michael J. Fox says the timing was perfect when Denis Leary asked him last year to star in a five-episode arc of Rescue Me as a bad-tempered, drug-abusing paraplegic.
Denis Leary revives 'Rescue Me' with friend Michael J. Fox
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There was a spinal injury ward with 26 beds for paraplegic patients.
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The word Paralympic was originally a pun combining "paraplegic" and "Olympic," however with the inclusion of other disability groups and the close associations with the Olympic Movement, it now represents "parallel" and "Olympic" to illustrate how the two movements exist side by side.
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He is paraplegic after being shot by gunmen while on assignment overseas.
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A hysteric who seems paraplegic behaves as if he has forgotten that he has legs; he has lost the mental representation of a part of his body.
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The young man is struggling with the early part of his paraplegic experience after an accident and is trying to come to grips with what life has left for him.
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A neuro-stimulation implant could tell paraplegics who have lost sensitivity in their bladders when to urinate.
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Joan's been involved in disabled sport from its very beginning, at the Paraplegic Games at Stoke Mandeville in 1948.
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Athletes, or others whose physical activity was at the center of their self-conception, are more likely to find a paraplegic's life intolerable.
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He has walked in nine countries, many times, just to raise funds for paraplegics who cannot afford medical treatment.
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Then a horse dies underneath you, you crash to the ground and in an instant you go from future star to possible paraplegic.
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He doesn't believe she will want to leave a secure relationship to be with a paraplegic.