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poliovirus

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10 lettersPart of speech nounSorted iilooprsuvStarts with PEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the virus causing poliomyelitis

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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