Converse of subject

• affect: Areas shown in black are those most liable to be affected by poliomyelitis.

Converse of object

• have: A case of progressive muscular atrophy occurring in a man who had acute poliomyelitis nineteen years previously.

• inactivate: Jonas Salk, of the University of Pittsburgh, developed the first successful polio vaccine from inactivated poliomyelitis.

• contract: Having contracted poliomyelitis, she was left without the use of her right leg in 1923.

• eradicate: Ana Paula Dos Santos added that the Angolan government vowed to eradicate poliomyelitis by 2005, which calls for a hard work.

• cause: They were of limited success, causing poliomyelitis at a high frequency in recipients.

Adjective modifier

• paralytic: Even many of those who had paralytic poliomyelitis put the disease out of their minds once they had achieved maximum recovery of function.

• vaccine-associated: In the UK, there is less than one case of vaccine-associated poliomyelitis per year.

• bulbar: Absence of tonsils as a factor in the development of bulbar poliomyelitis.

• antecedent: Evidence of remote denervation consistent with antecedent poliomyelitis was demonstrated in all patients by electromyography or muscle biopsy or both.

• anterior: For these reasons, the full name of the disease is acute anterior poliomyelitis.

Modifies a noun

• vaccine: Development of Polio Vaccines Describes the discovery and development of the poliomyelitis vaccine.

• virus: An outbreak of encephalitis, possibly due to poliomyelitis virus.

• sequela: METHOD: Interviews with 22 persons with poliomyelitis sequelae were content analyzed according to grounded theory.

• eradication: The declaration of poliomyelitis eradication in the western pacific region is scheduled for Oct 29, 2000, in Kyoto, Japan.

• epidemic: Poliomyelitis epidemics were frequent in the 30's and 40's and patients with spinal paralysis were treated in tank ventilators.

• patient: In addition, constant " remodeling " of motor units apparently occurs in poliomyelitis patients without new symptoms ( Cashman et al.

Noun used with modifier

• epidemic: Epidemic poliomyelitis: Some pathological observations on human material.