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polio
polio:
[20]
Polio
is an abbreviation of
poliomyelitis
[19], a term coined in modern Latin from Greek
poliós
‘grey’ and
muelós
‘marrow’ (a derivative of
mūs
‘muscle’) – hence ‘inflammation of the ‘grey matter’ of the spinal chord’