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 →

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 →
• Grandma remembers getting the polio vaccine on a sugar lump. tree →
• Polio is caused by a virus. tree →
• Jonas Salk made one of the first polio vaccines. tree →
• Today polio has almost disappeared from the world. tree →
• Some people who had polio needed leg braces to walk. tree →

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.
• There are vaccines against illnesses such as measles, polio and flu.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «polio» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.