Similar words: portfolio, scoliosis, polis, polite, policy, police, polish, polity. Meaning: ['pəʊlɪəʊ] n. an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord.
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31. Polio was a crack in the fantasy.
32. The isolation ward was already crowded with cases of other illnesses when the first five polio victims arrived in May.
33. The vaccine brought a drastic drop-80 percent-in paralytic polio cases by 1957.
34. Like others beset by misfortune, polio patients found solace in comparing themselves to others.
35. She had survived polio, but her right leg was weak and deformed.
36. Polio, apparently passed on from a human epidemic in the region, had already reduced their numbers.
37. At one time, and I became adversaries over the selection of polio virus strains to be used as oral vaccines.
38. Writing about her friend Bea Wright, biographer Eleanor Chappell voiced the spirit expected of polio victims.
39. When Sabin developed his attenuated strains of polio he energetically pursued his goal of making them widely accepted as vaccine strains.
40. The decision had taken so long and polio had so retreated from public concern that it was all anticlimactic.
41. For polio patients, however, something more than inactivity was involved in the loss of calcium.
42. Everything was coming true, then right out of high school I contracted polio and was completely paralyzed within a week.
43. But, undoubtedly,'s major achievements were in the field of vaccination against polio.
44. To dread the slightest sneeze or cough that might herald the onset of polio or tuberculosis.
45. Polio patients in acute wards were seldom shielded from the deaths of others.
46. In 1924 a friend told him that another polio victim had received helpful therapy from warm mineral water in the South.
47. In 1940, he was stricken with polio and became disabled.
48. In polio epidemics, rewards and punishments were dispensed with a random, devastating hand.
49. The iron lung became an icon of the polio years.
50. Money solved that problem, as it was to solve many others to come in the crusade against polio.
51. As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio, which left one leg slightly shorter than the other.
52. When she contracted polio, which paralyzed her left leg, she was told she would never walk again.
53. Raised in London, he suffered polio in childhood and endured long spells in hospital.
54. When a hospital worker came down with polio, the whole staff was inoculated.
55. That's enough to provide 100 antibiotic tablets to fight infections and sufficient vaccine to protect four children from polio for life.
56. Diseases such as leprosy and polio have almost completely died out.
57. Not suspecting polio, physicians prescribed codeine, penicillin, aspirin, and even antibiotics for their patients' aching bodies. Sentencedict.com
58. Often the first separation was literal, through hospital isolation and quarantine, practices firmly established during the 1916 polio epidemic.
59. A teen club used the money from its treasury to take a teen polio patient to a movie.
60. Victims and their families spent months, even years, in doubt about what long-term effects polio might have.
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