wheelchair
noun
wheel·chair
ˈ(h)wēl-ˌcher 
: a chair mounted on wheels especially for the use of disabled persons
Examples of wheelchair in a Sentence
He was in a wheelchair for several months after the accident.
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Janine Henni, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025
More recently he has been seen with a walking stick and sometimes uses a wheelchair.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
Ralph Yarl, teen shot after mistakenly going to the wrong house, talks about recovery
The Missouri man appeared in court in a wheelchair on Friday, according to ABC's Kansas City affiliate KMBC.
—Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2025
But none of that went into his desire to cast his film with disabled voice actors, specifically, but to honor the film’s subject, Mats Steen, who had a rare disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, that confined him to a wheelchair.
—Kristen Lopez, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
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“Wheelchair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wheelchair. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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wheelchair
noun
wheel·chair
-ˌche(ə)r
-ˌcha(ə)r
: a chair with wheels used especially by sick, injured, or disabled people to get about
Medical Definition
wheelchair
noun
wheel·chair
ˈhwē(ə)l-ˌche(ə)r, ˈwē(ə)l-, -ˌcha(ə)r
: a chair mounted on wheels especially for the use of disabled individuals
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