poliovirus

poliovirus
/poh"lee oh vuy'reuhs, poh'lee oh vuy"-/, n., pl. polioviruses.
any of three picornaviruses of the genus Enterovirus, having a spherical capsid, infectious to humans and the cause of poliomyelitis.
[1950-55; POLIO + VIRUS]

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