Crippled

A medically outmoded and politically incorrect term that implies a serious loss of normal function through damage or loss of an essential body part or element.

However, in the not-so-distant past there were US federal funds appropriated for 'crippled children.' The word 'cripple' is of Anglo-Saxon origin, from 'creopan' meaning 'to creep.' Someone who was crippled, from an oxcart rolling over his leg, had to creep along.

There is a tendency in medicine to prefer words of Greek and Latin ancestry to those of Anglo-Saxon descent.