polio
polio
Definition
po·lio (pō′lē ō′)
noun
polio
Usage Examples
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
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