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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

tetraplégico

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tetraplegico

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Quadri/ˈkwɒd.ri/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O programa de reabilitação auxilia tetraplégicos na reintegração social."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An informal abbreviation for a quadriplegic person, an individual with paralysis of all four limbs.

    "The recreational facility provides specialized adaptive sports programs for quatris and paraplegics alike."
  2. 2

    A combining prefix or root indicating four parts, elements, or dimensions.

    "The compound word uses quadri- to denote a four-fold structure."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin combining form quadri-, meaning 'four-', stemming from quattuor. It is widely used in medical and anatomical terminology, particularly as a clipped colloquial abbreviation for a quadriplegic person.

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