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Definition of Poliomyelitis

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

Definition of Poliomyelitis

1. Noun. (pathology) Acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes deformity. ¹

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Definition of Poliomyelitis

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Medical Definition of Poliomyelitis

1. An acute viral disease, occurring sporadically and in epidemics and characterised clinically by fever, sore throat, headache and vomiting, often with stiffness of the neck and back. In the minor illness these may be the only symptoms. The major illness, which may or may not be preceded by the minor illness, is characterised by involvement of the central nervous system, stiff neck, pleocytosis in the spinal fluid and perhaps paralysis. There may be subsequent atrophy of groups of muscles, ending in contraction and permanent deformity. The major illness is called acute anterior poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis and Heine Medin disease. The disease is now largely controlled by vaccines. Origin: Gr. Myelos = marrow This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Poliomyelitis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"The Etiology of Epidemic poliomyelitis.—EC ROSENOW, EB TOWNE and GW ... In twelve consecutive cases of poliomyelitis which came to autopsy in New York, ..."

2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1919)
"PERSISTENCE OF THE VIRUS OF poliomyelitis IN THE NASOPHARYNX. ... This paper is intended as a contribution to the epidemiology of poliomyelitis. ..."

3. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1919)
"Rosenow, EC, and Gray, H.: Agglutination of the pleomorphic streptococcus isolated from epidemic poliomyelitis by immune horse, human, and monkey serum. ..."

4. A Textbook of bacteriology: A Practical Treatise for Students and by Hans Zinsser, Frederick Fuller Russell (1922)
"The basis for the identification of these conditions with poliomyelitis lies chiefly in the similarity of the pathological lesions and upon the fact that ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"... MD NEUROLOGIST TO THE ERNEST WENDE HOSPITAL, BUFFALO, NY The epidemic of poliomyelitis which has been prevalent in Buffalo and some of the surrounding ..."

6. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"July No. i AN ATTEMPT TO TRANSMIT poliomyelitis BY THE BITE OF ... Owing to the successful transmission of poliomyelitis from monkey to monkey through the ..."

7. The Indian Policy of the United States on the Southwestern Frontier, 1830 by Joseph Abner Hill, Philip Hanson Hiss, Hans Zinsser (1914)
"In consequence of the emphatically expressed opinion as to the infectious nature of acute poliomyelitis, the efforts to isolate specific microorganisms from ..."

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