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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
polio
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the AIDS/flu/polio etc virus
▪ They are trying to stop the spread of the flu virus.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
live
▪ Two different live polio vaccines tested then infected children with the disease rather than protected them; some died.
■ NOUN
case
▪ The vaccine brought a drastic drop-80 percent-in paralytic polio cases by 1957.
▪ Maine, with a population of one million, had 463 polio cases and only 10 deaths.
▪ Between 1948 and 1955 there were more polio cases than in the previous thirty years.
epidemic
▪ His interest in polio is said to have originated during the polio epidemic in New York City in 1931.
▪ If flies could be eliminated, then perhaps so could polio epidemics.
▪ What the experimenters did not account for in their preparations was the hysteria that surrounded polio epidemics.
▪ The result: a temporary reduction of flies, but no halt in the polio epidemic.
▪ In polio epidemics, rewards and punishments were dispensed with a random, devastating hand.
▪ Often the first separation was literal, through hospital isolation and quarantine, practices firmly established during the 1916 polio epidemic.
patient
▪ One hundred more polio patients soon followed.
▪ A teen club used the money from its treasury to take a teen polio patient to a movie.
▪ For polio patients, however, something more than inactivity was involved in the loss of calcium.
▪ Like others beset by misfortune, polio patients found solace in comparing themselves to others.
▪ Care for polio patients was costly.
▪ On staff were nurses and doctors with special training in the care of polio patients.
▪ All that attention to bladders and bowels, however necessary, only added to the lack of privacy for paralyzed polio patients.
vaccine
▪ Like all good conspiracy theories, the polio vaccine theory's originators are its worst enemies.
▪ Two different live polio vaccines tested then infected children with the disease rather than protected them; some died.
▪ Human Aids dates from the same years during which live polio vaccines were tested.
▪ What had happened in medicine since the polio vaccine?
▪ It accounted for a third of all oral polio vaccine administered.
▪ In a few minutes I will report on a new polio vaccine announced as a polio cure.
▪ First, chimpanzee kidney tissues will prove to have been used to grow Chat polio vaccine.
▪ Cutter Laboratories announced a special program to provide polio vaccine to all its workers and stockholders.
victim
▪ The conscious, alert patient, such as the polio victim, must be given treatment for as long as he desires.
▪ A former polio victim walked across the state of Idaho to collect pledges.
▪ She was a polio victim and only four feet nine inches tall, with curvature of the spine.
▪ Some families of polio victims mounted twenty-four-hour bedside vigils.
▪ Given the 163 extensive publicity, few could fail to be moved by the plight of polio victims.
▪ Writing about her friend Bea Wright, biographer Eleanor Chappell voiced the spirit expected of polio victims.
▪ Hospitals equipped to care for polio victims sometimes employed engineers around the clock to keep the respirators operating.
▪ In 1924 a friend told him that another polio victim had received helpful therapy from warm mineral water in the South.
virus
▪ At one time, and I became adversaries over the selection of polio virus strains to be used as oral vaccines.
▪ First, how many types of polio virus existed?
▪ The polio virus first invades the intestines, where it lives, replicates, and usually establishes harmless infection.
▪ So, a polio vaccine tricks our body into making antibodies to the polio virus.
■ VERB
come
▪ With the vaccine approved and becoming more widely available, the unvaccinated continued to come down with polio.
▪ Had anyone else in the Mott family come down with polio as a result?
▪ Some camps closed because children came down with polio.
▪ When a hospital worker came down with polio, the whole staff was inoculated.
▪ But the dream came to an abrupt end when Peter Mott came down with polio.
contract
▪ Doctors told her she'd contracted polio from her son.
▪ When she contracted polio, which paralyzed her left leg, she was told she would never walk again.
▪ Read in studio A pressure group's calling for a compensation scheme for people who contract polio from vaccinations.
▪ My grandmother was fifty-two when Virginia contracted polio.
▪ The following year he contracted polio.
▪ In the early forties researchers reasserted an earlier observation that children who had had recent tonsillectomies were prone to contracting polio.
get
▪ As the years went on and no better idea about how one got polio was advanced, the theory took on importance.
▪ Still, children-and adults-#got polio.
▪ When I got polio, it was in the mid-1940s, ten years before the first polio vaccine began to be used.
▪ She may have elbowed in ahead of other deserving souls, but then neither of her children got polio.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By the close of 1955 polio began to decline.
▪ Do they think it could be polio?
▪ For polio patients, however, something more than inactivity was involved in the loss of calcium.
▪ He maintained this gift even after he had been disabled by the recurrence of teenage polio.
▪ If there was any pain, polio was suspected.
▪ The following year he contracted polio.
▪ The implicit threat of disease curtailed summer pleasures for the children of the polio years.
▪ With the vaccine approved and becoming more widely available, the unvaccinated continued to come down with polio.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
polio

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 symptoms, motor paralysis, and muscular atrophy, often producing permanent deformities. Called also acute anterior poliomyelitis, poliomyelitis and polio. It is caused by any one of three polioviruses, and by the end of the twentieth century had been almost completely eradicated in developed countries by a widespread campaign of immunization.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
polio

1911, abbreviation of poliomyelitis.

Wiktionary
polio

n. 1 Abbreviation of poliomyelitis 2 A sufferer from poliomyelitis

WordNet
polio

n. an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord [syn: poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis, acute anterior poliomyelitis]

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Polio (disambiguation)

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Usage examples of "polio".

But this present, mysterious epidemic had a much higher fatality rate than the polio of old.

The new polio was crippling the West Coast and breaking out in New England as well.

But that was all before my sister made polio up close and personal in the family and brought back memories to my aunt.

This was just a small county hospital with about forty beds, but it also had a polio ward with two iron lungs ready to go, such was the fear in those days.

I remember the day they handed out the permission forms for the Salk polio vaccine, which was a big shot with a square needle in the meat of your arm.

Does it strike you as a queer thing that your Collins polio and my Buckley, coming in from the same district, exhibit the same phenomena?

Beaven has just come upon a new fact about polio that will put the literature on that subject into the museum.

British airports on suspicion of having had contact with a possible polio carrier at Zurich Airport, also an English girl, are still being held in quarantine.

Salk polio vaccine, which was a big shot with a square needle in the meat of your arm.

Bloomtown Community Swimming Pool and Recreation Center, which had just reopened following a polio scare.

She looks at the floor and sees all the hair that has fallen and she cries, forgetting the blindness and polio, seeing only baldness.

I have done nothing about her, or about any of them, nothing all winter long, and now March is almost upon us-the red skating flag will come down over the park and once again we will be into polio season.

If only a person is willing to risk polio from the pool, gangrene from the footbath, ptomaine from the hot dogs, and elephantiasis from the soap and the towels, he might possibly get laid.

She contracted polio last year and is making a slow recovery--too slow for her.

Excessive politeness appears to be a common disease of the early twentieth century which, like polio and scarlet fever, has largely been eradicated from modern society but I am too old to have been inoculated.