polio
英 ['pəʊlɪəʊ]
美 ['polɪo]
- n. 小儿麻痹症（等于poliomyelitis）；脊髓灰质炎
TEM8 IELTS
1. pal- => polio- "grey".
- polio
- polio: [20] Polio is an abbreviation of poliomyelitis [19], a term coined in modern Latin from Greek poliós ‘grey’ and muelós ‘marrow’ (a derivative of mūs ‘muscle’) – hence ‘inflammation of the ‘grey matter’ of the spinal chord’
- polio (n.)
- 1911, abbreviation of poliomyelitis.
- 1. The first authoritative study of polio was published in 1840.
- 关于小儿麻痹症的第一篇权威性研究报告发表于1840年。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. He dragged a foot when he walked, a leftover from polio.
- 他走路时一瘸一拐的，那是小儿麻痹的后遗症。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. He wore leg braces after polio in childhood.
- 他幼时得过小儿麻痹症后双腿安上了支架。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Polio was then endemic among children my age.
- 那时小儿麻痹症在我这个年纪的孩子中很常见。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. He was crippled by polio as a child.
- 他幼年患过小儿麻痹症，结果腿就瘸了。
来自《权威词典》
