Poliomyelitis in a sentence as a noun

>In 1940, at the age of 51, Midgley contracted poliomyelitis, which left him severely disabled.

"Glasgow's first Intensive Therapy Unit was developed, consequent to a large outbreak of poliomyelitis in Denmark, with many of the patients there requiring artificial respiration.

Poliomyelitis definitions

noun

an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord

See also: polio