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Definition of Infantile paralysis

1. Noun. An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord.

Medical Definition of Infantile paralysis

1. Old synonym for polio. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infantile Paralysis

Literary usage of Infantile paralysis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Survey 36:596 S 16 46 Control of epidemic infantile paralysis. Sci- V ence ns 44:352-4 S 8 46 Control of tlie next epidemic of infantile paralysis. ..."

2. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"infantile paralysis is now properly regarded as a communicable disease. ... It appears that infantile paralysis is becoming more and more common and more ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Epidemic infantile paralysis.—M. ALLEN STARR (Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., 1908, ii, 111) discusses the epidemic of acute anterior poliomyelitis occurring in ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1894)
"ENB The Two Principal Types of infantile paralysis.—(L'Union Medicate, March 4, 1893). Professor Grasset, of Montpellier, in one of his recent lectures at ..."

5. Annals of Ophthalmology (1917)
"While in the majority of cases of infantile paralysis the cord alone is involved, the occasional occurrence of head symptoms shows that the infectious ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1894)
"ENB The Tico Principal Types of infantile paralysis.—(L'Union Medicate, March 4, 1893). Professor Grasset, of Montpellier, in one of his recent lectures at ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"In not a few instances, paralytic diseases among poultry or pigs have been noted to coincide with the appearance of cases of infantile paralysis on a farm ..."

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