N-plegics
I was thinking about a particular line from a poem of mine:
quintuple amputee can't you heal us?and started to wonder about the closely related term quintaplegic. Do people use this term? And when they use it, is it always in a ribald way? So, instead of doing some real research, I tallied up page counts at Google, checking all the Latin and Greek possibilities I could think of.
Name | Number of hits |
0.5 | |
hemiplegic | 41000 |
semiplegic | 7 |
demiplegic | 3 |
1 | |
uniplegic | 75 |
monoplegic | 2 |
2 | |
biplegic | 29 |
diplegic | 39200 |
3 | |
triplegic | 1020 |
4 | |
quadraplegic | 85300 |
quadriplegic | 980000 |
quadruplegic | 2050 |
tetraplegic | 116000 |
5 | |
quintaplegic | 31 |
quintiplegic | 1 |
quintuplegic | 3 |
pentaplegic | 411 |
6 | |
hexaplegic | 32 |
hexiplegic | 1 |
7 | |
heptaplegic | 13 |
septaplegic | 9 |
8 | |
octoplegic | 36 |
9 | |
nonaplegic | 1 |
10 | |
decaplegic | 2 |
11 | |
undecaplegic | 0 |
12 | |
duodecaplegic | 1 |
2 comments:
So what do you call it when a centipede becomes immobilized?
centiplegic 13, hectoplegic 0. The Web has spoken!
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