Poliomyelitis Definition

pōlē-ō-mīə-lītĭs
noun
An acute infectious disease, esp. of children, caused by a viral inflammation of the gray matter of the spinal cord: it is accompanied by paralysis of various muscle groups that sometimes atrophy, often with resulting permanent deformities.
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Origin of Poliomyelitis

  • Greek polios gray (since it affects the gray matter) pel-1 in Indo-European roots myelitis

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Poliomyelitis Sentence Examples

  • Antecedent poliomyelitis was demonstrated in all patients by electromyography or muscle biopsy or both.

  • Fever and asymmetric flaccid paralysis without sensory loss in a child or young adult almost always indicate poliomyelitis.

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

  • Poliomyelitis causes an overall loss of motor units; therefore, the remaining units must innervate many more muscle fibers than they did originally.

  • In 1909, Landsteiner and Popper (4) transmitted poliomyelitis to monkeys by the intracerebral inoculation of human brain tissue homogenates.

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