Crossword-Solution: POLIOMYELITIS
We have 4 clues for the answer “POLIOMYELITIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| POLIO | 1 answer |
| a virus disease of the spinal cord, often causing paralysis; infantile paralysis | 1 answer |
| BRAIN and spinal cord motor nerve cells, inflammation of the | 2 answers |
| INFANTILE paralysis | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMZAEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with POLIOMYELITIS (5)
Amongst the forms of Degeneration of the Muscular Tissue the reader will have noticed that of Infantile Paralysis or Poliomyelitis.
The scientific name, "Poliomyelitis," is derived from the Greek words: polios, grey and myleos, marrow; for its chief feature is a softening of the grey spinal marrow.
Among the human diseases, yellow fever, poliomyelitis, and dengue are so produced; of the animal diseases in addition to foot and mouth disease, pleuropneumonia, cattle plague, African horse sickness, several diseases of fowls and the mosaic disease of the tobacco plant have all been shown to be due to a filterable virus.
FOOTNOTE: [1] Flexner has recently succeeded in isolating and cultivating the organism of poliomyelitis, but the organism is so small that its classification is not possible.
CHAPTER IX DISEASE CARRIERS.--THE RELATION BETWEEN SPORADIC CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND EPIDEMICS.--SMALLPOX.--CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.--POLIOMYELITIS.--VARIATION IN THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF INDIVIDUALS.--CONDITIONS WHICH MAY INFLUENCE SUSCEPTIBILITY.--RACIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY.--INFLUENCE OF AGE AND SEX.--OCCUPATION AND ENVIRONMENT.--THE AGE PERIOD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Quotes with POLIOMYELITIS (1)
The question was whether an ape which was being used to develop a poliomyelitis serum, and for this reason punctured again and again, would ever be able to grasp the meaning of its suffering. Unanimously, the group replied that of course it would not; with its limited intelligence, it could not enter into the world of man, i.e., the only world in which the meaning of its suffering would be understandable. Then I pushed forward with the following question: ‘And what about man?…