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n. A highly infectious viral disease that chiefly affects children and, in its acute forms, causes inflammation of motor neurons of the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to paralysis, muscular atrophy, and often deformity. Through vaccination, the disease is preventable. Also called infantile paralysis.

n. Acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes deformity.

n. Inflammation of the gray matter of the spinal cord.

n. an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord

"The name poliomyelitis derives from the Greek words"

infectious disease   

anterior poliomyelitis   

polio    infantile paralysis   

scarlatina    polio    erysipelas    glanders    radiculopathy    chicken pox    hookworm    quinsy    leprosy    gonorrhoea