poliomyelitis
po·lio·my·eli·tis
noun \ˌpō-lē-(ˌ)ō-ˌmī-ə-ˈlī-təs\Definition of POLIOMYELITIS
: an acute infectious disease caused by the poliovirus and characterized by fever, motor paralysis, and atrophy of skeletal muscles often with permanent disability and deformity and marked by inflammation of nerve cells in the anterior gray matter in each lateral half of the spinal cord —called also infantile paralysis
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