Polio

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Infantile paralysis \In"fan*tile pa*ral"y*sis\ (Med.)
     An acute viral disease, affecting almost exclusively infants
     and young adults, characterized by inflammation of the
     anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord. It
     is attended with febrile symptoms, motor paralysis, and
     muscular atrophy, often producing permanent deformities.


     Called also {acute anterior poliomyelitis}, {poliomyelitis}
     and {polio}. It is caused by any one of three polioviruses,
     and by the end of the twentieth century had been almost
     completely eradicated in developed countries by a widespread
     campaign of immunization.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  polio
       n : an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells
           of the brain stem and spinal cord [syn: {poliomyelitis},
           {infantile paralysis}, {acute anterior poliomyelitis}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "polio":
     African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles,
     Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease,
     amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, apoplexy,
     bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever,
     blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague,
     cachectic fever, catalepsy, cataplexy, cerebral rheumatism,
     chicken pox, cholera, cowpox, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue,
     dengue fever, diphtheria, diplegia, dumdum fever, dysentery,
     elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas,
     famine fever, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, glandular fever,
     grippe, hansenosis, hemiplegia, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex,
     herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia,
     infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis,
     inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot,
     kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa,
     loaiasis, lockjaw, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever,
     measles, meningitis, milzbrand, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis,
     palsy, paralysis, paraplegia, paratyphoid fever, paresis,
     parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, poliomyelitis,
     polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, psittacosis, rabbit fever, rabies,
     rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox,
     ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever,
     schistosomiasis, sensory paralysis, septic sore throat, shingles,
     sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever,
     splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, stroke, swamp fever,
     tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis,
     tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever,
     undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease,
     viral dysentery, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack,
     zona, zoster