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# polio

«polio» in Mova's school dictionary: **A serious illness caused by a virus that can damage the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (polio, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

A serious illness caused by a virus that can damage the nerves and cause paralysis, so people cannot move parts of their body. Its full name is poliomyelitis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polio/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In history and health lessons: polio was once common around the world, especially among children. Vaccines developed by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin in the 1950s and 60s made it rare; today it remains in very few places, and worldwide vaccination aims to wipe it out. Former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt had polio.

### examples

- Polio vaccines have saved millions of children from paralysis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polio/#x1)
- Grandma remembers getting the polio vaccine on a sugar lump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polio/#x2)
- Polio is caused by a virus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polio/#x3)
- Jonas Salk made one of the first polio vaccines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polio/#x4)
- Today polio has almost disappeared from the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polio/#x5)
- Some people who had polio needed leg braces to walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polio/#x6)

### note

Uncountable; short for poliomyelitis. Pronounced «POH-lee-oh». It cannot be cured once someone has it, but it can be prevented by vaccination.

### In the corpora

- [Polio can cause paralysis; vaccination has made it rare, and the wild virus is still found mainly in Pakistan and Afghanistan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/15/)
- [There are vaccines against illnesses such as measles, polio and flu.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/37-germs-hygiene-vaccines/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «polio» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polio/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.