Infantile paralysis

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·add. ·- An acute disease, almost exclusively infantile, characterized by inflammation of the anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord. It is attended with febrile symptoms, motor paralysis, and muscular atrophy, often producing permanent deformities. Called also acute anterior poliomyelitis.

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Infantile
·adj Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; chil...

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paralysis
părălysis, is, f., = παράλυσις, palsy , paralysis : paralysi mederi, Plin. 20, 3, 8, § 14: paraly...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
Paralysis
·noun Abolition of function, whether complete or partial; ·esp., the loss of the power of voluntary ...

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