polio

1. (uncountable) Abbreviation of poliomyelitis.

2. (countable, informal) A person who has poliomyelitis.Examples: "They don't need social service workers running back and forth every month or two to see if the polios are playing stickball in the street because they never will."; "The “polios” (as they called themselves) in Warm Springs didn't deny the seriousness of their health issues or the impairments to their physiology. But their most critical struggle, they claimed, involved healing sorely wounded spirits."