POLIO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polio mean? 

• POLIO (noun)
  The noun POLIO has 1 sense:

1. an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord

  Familiarity information: POLIO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLIO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

acute anterior poliomyelitis; infantile paralysis; polio; poliomyelitis

Hypernyms ("polio" is a kind of...):

infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)

 Context examples 

It is administered orally as polio prophylaxis in many areas of the world, but not in the U.S. since 2000.

(Oral Polio Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

The virus spreads by direct contact, and can be prevented by prophylaxis with the polio vaccine.

(Acute Poliomyelitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Polio used to be a cause of paralysis, but polio no longer occurs in the U.S.

(Paralysis, NIH)

From the Sigmodon genus of rodents, Sigmodon hispidus was the first animal model to be used in polio research.

(Cotton Rat, NCI Thesaurus)

What happens when the urgency to contain and stop the impact of COVID-19, or for that matter cholera, polio, measles and Ebola, reaches populations unable to respond?

(Slightly dirty water ‘still ok’ against coronavirus, SciDev.Net)

The African green monkey has been in use in scientific research since the 1950s and its tissues are used to produce vaccines for polio and smallpox.

(African Green Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)

Infants with the highest Bifidobacterium levels when they were vaccinated before 15 weeks of age had responses to tuberculosis, polio (oral), tetanus, and hepatitis B vaccines that were from 42 percent to 107 percent higher than infants with the lowest Bifidobacterium levels.

(Gut Bacteria from Breastfeeding Linked to Improved Infant Response to Vaccines, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

A new study analyzing samples from patients with and without acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) provides additional evidence for an association between the rare but often serious condition that causes muscle weakness and paralysis, and infection with non-polio enteroviruses.

(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)

A vaccine that contains live attenuated polio virus.

(Oral Polio Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)