| 释义 |
po·lio·myelitis
\“+\ noun
Etymology: New Latin, from poli- + myelitis
: an acute infectious virus disease especially of children that is characterized by fever, motor paralysis, and atrophy of skeletal muscles often with permanent disability and deformity and that results from inflammation and degeneration of the nerve cells in the anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord — called also acute anterior poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis |