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polio Definition

po·lio (lē ō′)

noun

poliomyelitis

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

  • 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.