polioclastic

Destructive to gray matter of the nervous system. [polio- + G. klastos, broken]

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po·lio·clas·tic (po″le-o-klasґtik) [polio- + Gr. klastos breaking] destroying the gray matter of the nervous system; a term applied to the viruses of poliomyelitis, epidemic encephalitis, and rabies.