poliovirus means A human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae family that causes poliomyelitis. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 81 out of 100.
Etymology
From polio + virus, the first element shortened from poliomyelitis.
noun
- 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.”