infantile paralysis

noun, Pathology
Origin
1835-45
Examples from the web for infantile paralysis
  • Perhaps polio's other name, infantile paralysis, had something to do with it.
  • These flies may transmit anthrax and possibly infantile paralysis, leprosy, surra and swamp fever.
British Dictionary definitions for infantile paralysis

infantile paralysis

noun
1.
a former name for poliomyelitis
infantile paralysis in Medicine

infantile paralysis n.
See poliomyelitis.