Dictionary

polio en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /-ljoʊ/ (General-American)
• /ˈpəʊljəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpoʊlioʊ/ (General-American)

Etymology

First element of polio(myelitis).

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable) Abbreviation of poliomyelitis.
   alt of poliomyelitis
2. (countable, informal) A person who has poliomyelitis.
   • The “polios” (as they called themselves) in Warm Springs didn't deny the seriousness of their health issues or the impairments to their physiology. But their most critical struggle, they claimed, involved healing sorely wounded spirits. 2008, Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, George Weisz, Healing the World's Children, page 141:
   • They don't need social service workers running back and forth every month or two to see if the polios are playing stickball in the street because they never will. 1977, United States. Congress. House. Welfare Reform Subcommittee, Administration's Welfare Reform Proposal: Joint Hearings..., page 223:

Forms

Deriveds

antipolio · nonpolio · postpolio · DPT