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Vinony

poliovirus

noun

  1. A species of human enterovirus in the family Picornaviridae that causes poliomyelitis.
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Wiktionary

noun

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

  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.”