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Meaning of lytico | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈlɪt.ɪ.koʊ/

Definitions

A medical condition prevalent on Guam, or an aspect of Lytico-Bodig disease, which causes paralysis.

uncountable

Examples

“Often lumped with lytico owing to clinical, familial, and pathological associations, is the parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam (PDCG), known locally as bodig; 40% of patients with bodig also have lytico.”
“The naval physicians renamed the bodig aspect of the disease, in which the spinal cord and brain are attacked, parkinsonism-dementia complex. In ALS, the lytico aspect, a sound brain is imprisoned in a paralyzed body.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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