poliovirus

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae family that causes poliomyelitis.
    — By now Jameson, a victim of polio, was confined to a wheelchair; most likely he'd contracted the poliovirus from an East German defector whom he interrogated in 1955.

词形变化

polioviruses plural

词源

From polio + virus, the first element shortened from poliomyelitis.
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