tetraplegia
noun
tetraplegia is a noun meaning “Paralysis of all four limbs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-T-R-A-P-L-E-G-I-A, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tetraplegia is tetraplegias.
What does tetraplegia mean?
noun
- 1
Paralysis of all four limbs.
- 2
Complete paralysis from below the jaw.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce tetraplegia?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-tetraplegia.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of tetraplegia
- tetraplegias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tetraplegia?
Tetraplegia appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Tetraplegia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense paralysis of all four limbs:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | tétraplégie |
| Portuguese | tetraplegia |
| Spanish | tetraplejia, tetraplejía |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does tetraplegia come from?
From tetra- + -plegia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).