[ noun ] a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs <noun.person>
McAfee suffered a severe spinal cord injury in a 1985 motorcycle accident which left him a quadriplegic.
Carmelo Gannello, who is legally blind, and Tom Woodward, a quadriplegic, also haven't let their disabilities stifle their creativity.
In 1986, a jury in St. Lucie County (Fla.) State Court, which saw some of the documents mentioned above, awarded $19.5 million to a 29-year-old woman who was left quadriplegic after a rollover accident.
Georgia's attorney general supports a quadriplegic's request to turn off the respirator that keeps him alive.
However, 56-year-old Connie Prior, a quadriplegic who has been at the hospital for two years, was incensed by the walkout.
"My only regret is that your product didn't come out 20 years ago," Frank Whitney, a quadriplegic Maryland computer scientist, told the company in a letter written on the system. Whitney has used the system for the past year.
A man hospitalized since being left quadriplegic by a gun-fired nail that severed his spine two years ago has settled a lawsuit for $15.35 million and says he'll use some of the money to help him return home.
Paul K. Longmore, a California historian and quadriplegic, said institutionalized care for the disabled is the norm in most states.
Mr. Burnett, with a $64,000 grant from the Easter Seal Society and a desire to help a quadriplegic friend, incorporated standard mouse, voice-recognition and computer-aided design programs into software he wrote called Mousetrap.