poliomyelitis
- n an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord
- In the misshapen ranks of the world's diseases, poliomyelitis is only an infant-sized killer compared with a giant like malaria.
- In all the years that medical researchers have been studying and describing the virus of poliomyelitis, they had never seen the critter.
- He says his converted virus causes poliomyelitis (and sometimes encephalitis).