English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Poliomyelitis, from the Ancient Greek πολιός (poliós, “grey”) + μυελός (muelós, “marrow”) + -ῖτις (-îtis, “-itis”). Compare French poliomyélite.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pŏ'lĭōmīəlīʹtĭs, pō'lĭōmīəlīʹtĭs, IPA(key): /ˌpɒlɪəʊmaɪəˈlaɪtɪs/, /ˈpəʊlɪəʊmaɪəˈlaɪtɪs/
Noun
poliomyelitis (countable and uncountable, plural poliomyelitides)
- (pathology) Acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes deformity.
- Synonyms: infantile paralysis, polio
Translations
infection by the poliovirus
- Arabic: شَلَل الْأَطْفَال m (šalal al-ʔaṭfāl)
- Armenian: պոլիոմիելիտ (hy) (poliomielit)
- Bulgarian: детски паралич m (detski paralič)
- Catalan: poliomielitis f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 小兒麻痺 / 小儿麻痹 (zh) (xiǎo'ér mábì), 脊髓灰質炎 / 脊髓灰质炎 (zh) (jǐsuǐ huīzhìyán)
- Czech: dětská obrna (cs) f, poliomyelitida f
- Danish: polio c, børnelammelse c
- Dutch: polio (nl) f, kinderverlamming (nl) f, poliomyelitis (nl) f
- Esperanto: poliomjelito
- Faroese: barnalamningur m
- Finnish: polio (fi), lapsihalvaus (fi), poliomyeliitti
- French: poliomyélite (fr) f, polio (fr) f
- German: Kinderlähmung (de) f, Poliomyelitis (de) f
- Hawaiian: poliō
- Hindi: पोलियो m (poliyo)
- Hungarian: gyermekbénulás (hu)
- Icelandic: mænusótt f
- Irish: polaimiailíteas m
- Italian: poliomielite (it) f, leucomielite f
- Japanese: 急性灰白髄炎 (きゅうせいかいはくずいえん, kyūsei kaihaku zuien), ポリオ (porio)
- Kazakh: полиомиелит (poliomielit)
- Korean: 소아마비(小兒痲痺) (ko) (soamabi), 폴리오 (pollio)
- Manx: anlheiltys lhiannooagh m, neulheiltys lhiannooagh m, neulheiltys oikanagh m
- Maori: mate whakarori tamariki, mate whakamemeke
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: polio, poliomyelitt (no), barnelammelse
- Nynorsk: polio, poliomyelitt, barnelamming
- Persian: فلج اطفال (fa) (falaj-e atfâl), پولیو (fa) (polio)
- Polish: choroba Heinego-Medina (pl) f, heinemedina (pl) f, polio (pl) n, porażenie dziecięce n
- Portuguese: poliomielite (pt) f
- Russian: полиомиели́т (ru) m (poliomijelít)
- Slovak: detská obrna f
- Spanish: poliomielitis f
- Swahili: ugonjwa wa kupooza (sw)
- Swedish: polio (sv) c, poliomyelit c, barnförlamning (sv) c
- Tagalog: polyo
- Turkish: çocuk felci, poliomyelit
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