post-polio syndrome
Medicine
noun
A condition characterized by the new development of muscle weakness, musculoskeletal pain, and general fatigue, occurring ten or more years after recovery from acute poliomyelitis.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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