Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - polio
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Polio is a serious infectious disease which often makes people unable to use their legs. Gladys was crippled by polio at the age of 3. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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also poliomyelitis, technical n a serious infectious disease of the nerves in the spine, often resulting in permanent paralysis (=complete inability to move particular muscles) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1931, abbreviation of poliomyelitis, coined 1878 from Gk. polios "gray" + myelos "marrow" + L. -itis "inflammation," so called because the gray matter in the spinal cord is inflamed, which causes paralysis. The earlier name was infantile paralysis (1843). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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