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po·lio·my·eli·tis

npl  -elit*i*des   :  an acute infectious virus disease characterized by fever, motor paralysis, and atrophy of skeletal muscles often with permanent disability and deformity and marked by inflammation of nerve cells in the ventral horns of the spinal cord - called also infantile paralysis , polio  po*lio*my*elit*ic adj 
 
 

 
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