infantile paralysis

noun

, Pathology.

1. poliomyelitis.

infantile paralysis

noun

1. See poliomyelitis
   a former name for poliomyelitis

Word History and Origins

Origin of infantile paralysis¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

Roosevelt also took bold and heroic action against poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, which struck tens of thousands of children almost every summer during the first half of the 20th century.

From Washington Post

Recently the stable fly has been found to carry the dread disease known as infantile paralysis.

From Project Gutenberg

Two years later, Flexner isolated the bacillus of infantile paralysis and Plotz that of typhus fever.

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That was the summer when the epidemic of infantile paralysis swept over the larger part of the United States.

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Convulsions and resultant infantile paralysis were frequently noticed among the children of these tea-tipplers.

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The chief effect produced, so far as offspring have been observed, is chiefly frequent abortions and infantile paralysis.

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