Poliovirus

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae family that causes poliomyelitis.

    "By now Jameson, a victim of polio, was confined to a wheelchair; most likely he'd contracted the poliovirus from an East German defector whom he interrogated in 1955."

  2. 2
    the virus causing poliomyelitis wordnet

Example

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"Africa is now free of the wild poliovirus."

Etymology

From polio + virus, the first element shortened from poliomyelitis.

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