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UK
/pˈəʊlɪˌɒmɪɪlˈaɪtɪs/
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NOUN
- an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord
How To Use poliomyelitis In A Sentence
- Other common diseases include schistosomiasis, sleeping sickness, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, and pneumonia.
- By 1957, another dread disease was all but conquered: acute anterior poliomyelitis, which might cripple for life those it did not kill.
- Neurological disorders, such as poliomyelitis and cerebral palsy, can also cause acquired clubfoot.
- Objective To study the rehabilitation effect of the lower extremity orthosis on the sequelae of poliomyelitis.
- Infectious diseases such as whooping cough, encephalitis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, rabies, tetanus, syphilis, and botulism rarely are seen now but can cause vocal cord paralysis.
- By 1946 the worst epidemic of poliomyelitis since the 1916 outbreak gripped the United States.
- He joined the Royal Air Force as a medical officer and served in India, Burma, and Ceylon, where he encountered smallpox, plague, poliomyelitis, typhus, anthrax, malaria, and dysentery.
- The name is usually abbreviated to poliomyelitis, or more commonly, polio.
- He was involved, as a medical scientist, in work on eradicating two great scourges - poliomyelitis and rabbits.
- Europe declared polio free: The World Health Organization last week certified its European region as free of poliomyelitis.
