poliovirus

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Definition of poliovirus

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”

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Etymology

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

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