Preposition: as

• prelude: The psychology of polio as prelude to Post-Polio Sequelae.

Converse of object

• eradicate: We remain on course too to eradicate polio from the face of the globe by 2005.

• contract: At the age of eighteen months, however, he contracted polio, which would leave him lame for the rest of his life.

• eliminate: Internationally, Rotary has been responsible for raising millions of pounds for such projects as eliminating polio throughout the world.

• catch: Thousands of those who caught polio in the past are with us today.

Adjective modifier

• paralytic: Pain in patients with past paralytic polio can be due to a variety of causes.

• non-paralytic: However, people with PPS symptoms and a history of non-paralytic polio have great difficulty receiving a diagnosis of PPS.

• bulbar: Bulbar polio was the major cause of death for early polio victims.

• acute: Most people who had acute polio have no obvious, or only minor, sequelae of the disease today.

• oral: It is not present in live vaccines such as MMR and oral polio.

• prior: Evidence of prior paralytic polio: via EMG, an appropriate history, or characteristic residual atrophy.

Modifies a noun

• survivor: Join a polio survivors support group, become informed, involved.

• vaccine: She had brought her baby to receive the polio vaccine.

• eradication: Last Friday's the Lancet published three related items on polio virus eradication.

• immunization: Children who have recently had polio immunization may enter the pool.

• immunization: With the eradication of polio and the eventual cessation of polio immunization, the world will save US $ 1.5 billion per year.

• vaccination: Polio vaccination is part of the national vaccine recommendations in the United Kingdom.

Noun used with modifier

• pulse: The town wore a festive look as people came out of their houses with their children to the pulse polio booths.

• childhood: I am more interested in the possibility or even probability of recovered memories of early childhood polio.

• post: Post polio had not caught up with me yet.