How to Use paraplegia in a Sentence
paraplegia
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Brett’s paraplegia led her to rekindle her love of cycling, which began for her as a child.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
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Bryant-Mulcare has paraplegia and is a full-time wheelchair user.
—Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 28 July 2020
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Wheelchair basketball games were some of the first public displays of paraplegia, Davis said.
—Annette Sisco, NOLA.com, 8 Nov. 2020
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Portland police are seeking the public's help to find a missing man with paraplegia who was last seen Monday.
—Samantha Matsumoto, OregonLive.com, 17 Oct. 2017
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Krouse ruled Moreno died of complications from paraplegia due to the gunshot wound and classified his death as a homicide.
—Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2021
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Tetraplegia, also known as quadriplegia, is paralysis that results in the partial or total loss of use of all four limbs and torso, while paraplegia does not affect the arms.
—Bill Lindelof, sacbee.com, 10 May 2017
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In 1917, while working as a volunteer at a hospital for coal miners, Guttmann encountered a patient with a spinal injury and paraplegia.
—Evelyn Frick, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
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On a recent morning, Phillips, 44, started his day at the home of a person with paraplegia, using a special lift to help him out of bed and with personal hygiene then into an electric wheelchair.
—Paul Sisson dec. 31, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
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Before World War II, paraplegia was considered to be a virtual death sentence.
—David Davis, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2020
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Dad lost his youngest son—my brother Peter—to mental illness and supported his oldest son—my brother Frank—to readjusting to life in a wheelchair when an accident left him with paraplegia.
—Dr Margie Warrell, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
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Ellen and Thomas Daly joined the paraplegia foundation’s Milwaukee chapter and worked in various roles at the organization.
—Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2019
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His treatment by police aggravated the injury that caused his paraplegia and humiliated him.
—BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2021
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Emily Barker, a 28-year-old based in Los Angeles, lives with paraplegia and an inflammatory condition that requires them to take immunosuppressant drugs.
—Jameson Rich, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2021
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While Musk's company touts the benefits of the technology for helping people devastated by paralysis or paraplegia, others have expressed concerns about the potential darker nature of the technology.
—Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
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People with paraplegia can control their bladder through sacral nerve stimulation, facilitating communication between the bladder and brain.
—Caroline Barlott, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2015
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Their disabilities include amputation, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, paraplegia and spinal cord injury.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
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