Synonym for poliodystrophy ... Wasting of the gray matter of the nervous system. ... Synonym: poliodystrophia. ... Origin: polio-+ G. Dys-, bad, + trophe, nourishment ... (05 Mar 2000) ... 
(po″le-o-dis-tro´fe-ә) poliodystrophy. poliodystrophia cerebri a rare disease of young children, marked by neuron degeneration of the cerebral cortex and elsewhere, with progressive mental deterioration, motor disturbances, sometimes cortical deafness and blindness, a...
Type: Term Pronunciation: pō′lē-ō-dis-trō′fē-ă Synonyms: poliodystrophy
poliodystrophia Any degenerative disease of gray matter in the central nervous system.