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Meaning of poliovirus | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae family that causes poliomyelitis.

Equivalents

Español poliovirus

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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