poliomyeliticadj.
/ˌpəʊlɪəʊmʌɪəˈlɪtɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌpoʊlioʊˌmaɪəˈlɪdɪk/ Medicine.
Of or relating to poliomyelitis; affected with or showing the effects of poliomyelitis.
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poliomyelitic1880
1880 Brain 2 542 No muscle can claim immunity from poliomyelitic processes, though some writers have expressed themselves in this sense.
1911 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 14 117 Flexner and Clark showed that the poliomyelitic virus would survive for a period of days in the subcutaneous tissues of the rabbit.
1940 Ann. Reg. 1939 376 Evidence suggested that poliomyelitic virus may occur in urban sewage.
1958 Jrnl. Bone & Joint Surg. 40A 513 In a few convalescent poliomyelitic patients..the Milwaukee brace has aided in reducing the curve.
2015 E. Schmutzhard & B. Pfausler in F. Deisenhammer et al. Cerebrospinal Fluid in Clin. Neurol. xiv. 181 A direct invasion of viruses into the myelon..frequently causing a well-circumscribed myelitis within the grey matter of the myelon, i.e. a poliomyelitic course of disease.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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