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An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord
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poliomyelitis
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord [syn: polio , infantile paralysis , acute anterior poliomyelitis ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) Acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes deformity.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Poliomyelitis , often called polio or infantile paralysis , is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus . In about 0.5% of cases there is muscle weakness resulting in an inability to move . This can occur over a few hours to few days. The weakness ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infantile paralysis \In"fan*tile pa*ral"y*sis\ (Med.) An acute viral disease, affecting almost exclusively infants and young adults, characterized by inflammation of the anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord. It is attended with febrile ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1874, also polio-myelitis , coined by German physician Adolph Kussmaul (1822-1902) from Greek polios "grey" (see fallow (adj.)) + myelos "marrow" + -itis "inflammation." So called because the gray matter in the spinal cord is inflamed, which causes paralysis. ...
Usage examples of poliomyelitis.
Mostly they talked big-worded medical nomenclature, things like anterior poliomyelitis and spastic paraplegia due to bilateral cerebral lesion.
My aunt Noni had had a best friend who got poliomyelitis when they were nine, just after WWI, about the time Franklin Delano Roosevelt had gotten his.
Karen, Nim learned, had been stricken with poliomyelitis just one year before the Salk vaccine went into widespread use in North America and, with Sabin vaccine a few years later, wiped polio from the landscape.
Long before the Crossings, such plagues as varicella, diphtheria, influenza, rubella, epidemic roseola, morbilli, scarlatina, variola, typhoid, typhus, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, hepatitis, cytomegalovirus herpes, and gonococcal were eliminated by vaccination .