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post-polio syndrome
[ pohst-poh-lee-oh ]
noun
- Pathology. muscle weakness occurring several decades after recovery from a polio infection, caused by fatiguing of collateral nerve axons developed during physical rehabilitation.
Example Sentences
In her early 40s, Lane was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome, which afflicts between 25% and 40% of childhood polio survivors.
He said his sister had been in the hospital a week and had heart issues that may have been the result of post-polio syndrome, related to a childhood infection that was so severe that she spent several months in an iron lung and lost her ability to walk at age 2.
Think of post-polio syndrome and AIDS.
People can develop post-polio syndrome decades after infection.
Children who recover from polio may experience post-polio syndrome as adults, with muscle weakness, fatigue and joint pain setting in decades after their initial infection.
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