Section 2581. Children with physical disabilities; definitions

As used in
  this article:   1.  "Children  with  physical  disabilities"  means  any
  persons  under  twenty-one  years of age who are disabled by reason of a
  defect or  disability,  whether  congenital  or  acquired  by  accident,
  injury,  or  disease,  or  who  are  suffering  from  long-term disease,
  including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, chronic
  granulomatous,  cystic   fibrosis,   epidermolysis   bullosa,   muscular
  dystrophy, nephrosis, rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, blood
  dyscrasies,  cancer,  brain  injured,  and  chronic  asthma, or from any
  disease or condition likely to result in a disability in the absence  of
  treatment,  provided,  however,  no child shall be deprived of a service
  under the provisions of this chapter solely because  of  the  degree  of
  mental retardation.
    2.   "Medical   service"   means  such  diagnostic,  therapeutic,  and
  rehabilitative care by  medical  and  paramedical  personnel,  including
  hospital  and related care, and drugs, prostheses, appliances, equipment
  and devices as necessary.