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polio
This term is a shortened, common form of poliomyelitis. In medical and public health contexts, it is used interchangeably with the full term, though "polio" is more frequent in general conversation and news reporting.
As a medical condition referring to a specific disease state, it is treated as an uncountable noun. It does not have a plural form because it describes a singular pathological entity rather than individual instances of the illness.
Meanings
Examples
The development of the vaccine helped eradicate polio in many countries.
My grandfather survived a bout of polio when he was a young child.
Many children in the fifties were terrified of contracting polio.
Is the polio vaccine still required for international travel to that region?
He spent months in an iron lung after the polio virus paralyzed his diaphragm.
I wonder if people realize how devastating polio was before the immunization era.
The clinic is offering free polio drops to all infants this month.
Polio attacks the motor neurons in the spinal cord.