POLIOMYELITIS

(Lat.), n. f. Pol-i!I-o(o3)-mi(mufl)-e2l-i(e)'- ti"s. Gen., -it'idos (-idis). From TroAtds, gray, and /u-veAos, marrow. Inflammation of the gray matter of the spinal cord. [D.] Acute anterior p. Ger., spinale Kinder lah mung. A destructive inflammation of the larger multipolar ganglion cells in the anterior cornua of the spinal cord, occurring chiefly in children during their first dentition. It deprives certain muscles and often an entire limb of muscular power, and the parts affected undergo rapid atrophy. [A, 520 (a, 29).] P. anterior chronic a. Progre ive muscular atrophy. [Ro (a, 34).] P. anterior subacuta cervical is cir cum script a. P. in which the lesion is situated in the anterior horns of gray matter in and about the cervical enlargement. [Eisenlohr, " Neurolog. Ctrlbl.," i, 1882, p. 410 (D, 35).] [s. 303]