noun
definition
Acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes deformity.
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Examples of poliomyelitis in a Sentence
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.
A case of progressive muscular atrophy occurring in a man who had acute poliomyelitis nineteen years previously.
Jonas Salk, of the University of Pittsburgh, developed the first successful polio vaccine from inactivated poliomyelitis.
Having contracted poliomyelitis, she was left without the use of her right leg in 1923.
Ana Paula Dos Santos added that the Angolan government vowed to eradicate poliomyelitis by 2005, which calls for a hard work.
They were of limited success, causing poliomyelitis at a high frequency in recipients.
Even many of those who had paralytic poliomyelitis put the disease out of their minds once they had achieved maximum recovery of function.
In the UK, there is less than one case of vaccine-associated poliomyelitis per year.
Evidence of remote denervation consistent with antecedent poliomyelitis was demonstrated in all patients by electromyography or muscle biopsy or both.
For these reasons, the full name of the disease is acute anterior poliomyelitis.
There was an extensive epidemic of poliomyelitis in Iceland caused by type I poliovirus that coincided with and was followed by outbreaks of ID.
Poliomyelitis virus of low virulence in patients with epidemic " summer grippe or sore throat " .
These vaccines include yellow fever, ' live ' typhoid and ' live ' oral poliomyelitis (polio ).
Poliomyelitis virus of low virulence in patients with epidemic " summer grippe or sore throat ".
These vaccines include yellow fever, ' live ' typhoid and ' live ' oral poliomyelitis (polio).
Nonparalytic poliomyelitis cannot be distinguished clinically from aseptic meningitis due to other agents.