Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A highly infectious viral disease that chiefly affects children and, in its acute forms, causes inflammation of motor neurons of the spinal cord and brain stem, leading to paralysis, muscular atrophy, and often deformity. Through vaccination, the disease is preventable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of the gray matter of the spinal cord.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology Acute infection by the
poliovirus , especially of themotor neurons in thespinal cord andbrainstem , leading to muscle weakness,paralysis and sometimes deformity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The name poliomyelitis derives from the Greek words
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Worst of all, many virus diseases are on the increase, a tendency particularly evident in poliomyelitis.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954 - Presentation Speech 1964
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Polio also called poliomyelitis is highly infectious and affects the nervous system, sometimes resulting in paralysis.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Now all our efforts are directed towards protection against six common communicable diseases, namely poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, tuberculosis and measles, which account for nearly 2.1 million deaths.
Medindia Health News 2009
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For that reason, any damage to the fibers, either through mechanical injury or as a result of a disease such as poliomyelitis, can result in paralysis.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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Resources used and their associated costs were based on information from the study budget, other community based programmes such as poliomyelitis, measles and neonatal tetanus campaigns underway in the Hohoe district and estimates form the principal investigator involved in the original IPTc clinical trial.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Lesong Conteh et al. 2010
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Though Dr. Kittell acknowledged that forty polio cases was more than twice as many as normally reported this early in the polio season, he wanted it clearly understood that the city of 429,000 was by no means suffering from what could be characterized as an epidemic of poliomyelitis.
'Nemesis' 2010
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Some diseases such as smallpox has been completely eliminated, and bubonic plague virtually eliminated, while malaria, poliomyelitis (polio) and measles have been eliminated or eradicated in large parts of the world, and are well on the way to be eliminated from much of the world.
Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real? 2010
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Some diseases such as smallpox has been completely eliminated, and bubonic plague virtually eliminated, while malaria, poliomyelitis (polio) and measles have been eliminated or eradicated in large parts of the world, and are well on the way to be eliminated from much of the world.
Printing: Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real? 2010
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On June 26, 1935, at age twelve, she was stricken with poliomyelitis.
Edith Fisch. 2009
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