Polio

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poh-lee-oh / Americanism / 1930-35

The word polio is short for poliomyelitis, a potentially deadly disease that infects a person’s spinal cord and brain, causing paralysis. It comes from the Greek words polios meaning grey and myelos meaning marrow, which refer to the grey matter of the spinal cord.

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