as in paraplegia
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Following this work, the company is now aiming to use its BCI to enhance the quality of lives of individuals with speech or motor function disabilities like Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), high-level paraplegia, and stroke.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Jan. 2025 -
The plaintiff, Darwin Boggs, has paraplegia and uses a wheelchair when traveling in public, the suit said.—
Rebecca Plevin,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Dec. 2024
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About a third experience some form of aura beforehand, often accompanied by debilitating symptoms from vomiting to vertigo, or, in worse cases, temporary blindness or hemiplegia, a paralysis down one side of the body.—
Matthew Ponsford,
WIRED,
19 Sep. 2024
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Related article Gaza’s chessboard of suffering: Tens of thousands on the move again as IDF issues new evacuation orders Julia suffers from a rare neurological disorder called alternating hemiplegia of childhood, or AHC.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN,
10 July 2024
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Students with disabilities graduated at a rate of 69%, still well below the statewide average.—
Erin Sjostedt,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Apr. 2025
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Read More Dad keeps quiet about construction job, gets $270K in disability in NJ, feds say A man from Toms River, New Jersey, collected $270,933 in disability benefits while secretly working in construction, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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Two of the rats were paralyzed and unable to reach food or water, and a third had paresis and had trouble moving.—
Rob O'Dell,
The Arizona Republic,
23 June 2021
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Doctors diagnosed her with paresis of the vocal folds, a muscular dysfunction.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
21 Nov. 2019
Noun
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Dementia patients have been found to have three to five times more plastic particles in their brains than those without cognitive impairment.—
Bill Frist,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Augustin was not suffering from any medical or mental health issue or impairment, his sister told authorities, per the complaint.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA TODAY,
13 Mar. 2025
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Walker was diagnosed with a rare form of cerebral palsy (spastic diplegia) at 18 months, forcing him to wear leg braces throughout his childhood.—
McKinley Franklin,
Variety,
13 Sep. 2023
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Spastic diplegia primarily involves the legs, often causing stiff hip and leg muscles.—
Lauren Sieben,
SELF,
22 Mar. 2022
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“Quadriplegia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadriplegia. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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