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Recent Examples of poliomyelitis
Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a viral disease that affects the nervous system.
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Fox News, 23 July 2022
Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is highly contagious and spreads via person-to-person contact even when the original contagious patient doesn't show symptoms.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 July 2022
Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease, which invades the nervous system and spreads mainly through contamination by fecal matter.
—Adela Suliman, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
Polio or poliomyelitis is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease, which invades the nervous system and spreads mainly through contamination by fecal matter.
—Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
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Fox News, 23 July 2022
Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is highly contagious and spreads via person-to-person contact even when the original contagious patient doesn't show symptoms.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 July 2022
Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease, which invades the nervous system and spreads mainly through contamination by fecal matter.
—Adela Suliman, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
Polio or poliomyelitis is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease, which invades the nervous system and spreads mainly through contamination by fecal matter.
—Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poliomyelitis
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The company is building a brain-computer interface, or BCI, which is able to translate brain signals into commands that can control technology outside the body and aims to help patients with severe paralysis.—
Michele Luhn,
CNBC,
3 June 2025
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Their bites attack the nervous system, possibly leading to seizures, the inability to walk or the inability to breathe due to respiratory paralysis or extreme swelling in the throat, Willey warned.—
Caleb Lunetta,
Mercury News,
27 May 2025
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Alexa explained in her reel that Duke University in North Carolina has been working on a clinical trial for cerebral palsy for over five years and has reported success in thousands of cases.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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This coming-of-age film, based on a 2010 novel by Sharon M. Draper, stars Phoebe-Ray Taylor as a sixth-grader with cerebral palsy facing the challenges of being in a mainstream class for the first time.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
1 May 2025
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Read more: Prevention & Treatment Diet and Nutrition 14 Sources Pietrangelo is a health writer who has authored two books: one focused on multiple sclerosis and the other on triple-negative breast cancer.—
Ann Pietrangelo,
Verywell Health,
28 May 2025
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Elected in 2018, she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a year earlier.—
Curtis Bunn,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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Bell’s palsy — which was then written into the show.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
28 May 2025
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Thomas died April 18 at Salisbury Hospice in Wilshire England, and had been battling progressive supranuclear palsy, daughter Phoebe Court-Thomas told The Hollywood Reporter.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Poliomyelitis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poliomyelitis. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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