poliodystrophy

poliodystrophy
Wasting of the gray matter of the nervous system. SYN: poliodystrophia. [polio- + G. dys-, bad, + trophe, nourishment]
- progressive cerebral p. SYN: poliodystrophia cerebri progressiva infantilis.

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po·lio·dys·tro·phy .pō-lē-ō-'dis-trə-fē n, pl -phies atrophy of the gray matter esp. of the cerebrum

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po·lio·dys·tro·phy (po″le-o-disґtrə-fe) [polio- + dystrophy] atrophy of the cerebral gray matter.

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