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polio
UK /ˈpəʊljəʊ/ US /ˈpoʊlioʊ/
noun 2name 1
Collocations
6(noun.)
VERB + POLIO
have | contract | immunize sb against, vaccinate sb against
POLIO + NOUN
vaccination, vaccine | virus | victim
Definitions
noun
1
Abbreviation of poliomyelitis.
2
A person who has poliomyelitis.
They don't need social service workers running back and forth every month or two to see if the polios are playing stickball in the street because they never will.
The “polios” (as they called themselves) in Warm Springs didn't deny the seriousness of their health issues or the impairments to their physiology. But their most critical struggle, they claimed, involved healing sorely wounded spirits.
name
1
A surname from Spanish.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells
- poliomyelitis
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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They don't need social service workers running back and forth every month or two to see if the polios are playing stickball in the street because they never will.
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The “polios” (as they called themselves) in Warm Springs didn't deny the seriousness of their health issues or the impairments to their physiology. But their most critical struggle, they claimed, invo
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She was vaccinated against polio.
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He was struck with polio when he was five.
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Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1952.
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The polio vaccine was first produced by an American scientist.
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