5. inexpressive face; 6. festinating gait; 7. rapid, persistent blinking (blephoraspasm). The Date of Diagnosis is the date the Covered Person displays Signs of this disease as confirmed by a Neurologist. Regularly working the number of hours set by the Subscriber as a regular work week for Employees, other than Full-time, temporary or seasonal, in the Employee’s eligibility class. A diagnosis that is based on a microscopic study of fixed tissue or preparations from the hemic (blood) system. This type of diagnosis must be done by a certified Pathologist whose diagnosis of malignancy is in keeping with the standards set up by the American Board of Pathology. A Physician who is licensed to practice pathological anatomy by the American Board of Pathology. Pathologist also means an osteopathic pathologist who is certified by the Osteopathic Board of Pathology. Activities used in measuring levels of personal functioning capacity. These activities are normally performed without assistance, allowing personal independence in everyday living. These activities include the following: 1. Transfer and mobility - The ability to move into or out of a bed, chair or wheelchair or to move from place to place, either via walking, a wheelchair, cane, crutches, walker or other equipment; 2. Continence - The ability to maintain control of bowel and bladder function; or, when unable to maintain control of bowel or bladder function, the ability to perform associated personal hygiene (including caring for catheter, urostomy, or colostomy bag); 3. Dressing – Putting on and taking off all items of clothing and any necessary braces, fasteners or artificial limbs; 4. Toileting – Getting to and from the toilet, transferring on and off the toilet and performing associated personal hygiene; 5. Eating – Feeding oneself by consuming food or fluids manually from a receptacle (such as a plate, cup or table); or 6. Bathing - Washing oneself by sponge bath; or in either a tub or a shower, including the task of getting into or out of the tub or shower. A licensed medical, osteopathic or podiatric practitioner who is practicing within the scope of his license and who is licensed to prescribe and administer medication and to perform surgery that is appropriate for the condition and locality and who is not: 1. employed or retained by the Subscriber; 2. living in the Covered Person’s household; or 3. a parent, sibling, spouse or child of the Covered Person. An acute, infectious disease caused by the poliovirus, characterized by fever, motor paralysis and atrophy of skeletal muscles, marked by inflammation of nerve cells in the anterior horns of the spinal cord, and leading to the following Signs: ''Signs'' means: Flaccid motor weakness or loss of motor function, and two of the following: 1. Muscular weakness; 2. Loss of muscle mass (atrophy); 3. Loss of muscle tone; 4. Loss of deep tendon reflexes. Poliomyelitis does not include non-paralytic (abortive) polio or post-polio syndrome.
Part-Time
Pathological Diagnosis
Pathologist
Physical Activities of Daily Living
Physician
Poliomyelitis
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