Both Uses of
polio
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Sir Leigh Teabing had suffered from polio as a child and now wore leg braces and walked with crutches, but Langdon had found him such a lively and colorful man on his last visit that it hardly seemed an infirmity.†
Chpt 51-52 *
- More clever still, Teabing had situated his electronic listening post in the one place a man with polio could not possibly reach.†
Chpt 103-104
Definition:
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(polio) an acute viral disease marked by muscle paralysis caused by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord