polio B2 Topic:Health & Medicine US /ˈpoʊlioʊ/ UK /ˈpəʊljəʊ/ See IPA manual Freq #20078 Meanings 1 noun A serious infectious disease, mainly affecting children, that can damage the nerves and cause paralysis. Vaccines have almost wiped out polio around the world. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a serious infectious... poliomyelitis Word family Forms polios Derived forms antipoliodptnonpoliopostpolio Etymology Borrowed from Spanish Polio. This surname is mostly found in El Salvador. Polio Spanish View etymology graph -> Topics Health & Medicine External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # polio **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈpoʊlioʊ/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈpəʊljəʊ/ **Frequency rank:** 20078 ## Meanings 1. A serious infectious disease, mainly affecting children, that can damage the nerves and cause paralysis. ## Examples - Vaccines have almost wiped out polio around the world. ## Derived Forms - antipolio - dpt - nonpolio - postpolio ## Roots and Affixes - Root: Polio ## Etymology Borrowed from Spanish Polio. This surname is mostly found in El Salvador. ## Topics - Health & Medicine markdown