enterovirus
pronunciation
How to pronounce enterovirus in British English:
UK [entərəʊ'vaɪərəs]
How to pronounce enterovirus in American English:
US [ˌentəroʊ'vaɪrəs]
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- Noun:
- any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system)
Word Origin
- enterovirus (n.)
- 1957; see entero- + virus.
Example
- 1. But samples from victims did not initially test positive for enterovirus 71 .
- 2. Transgenic plants expressing surface antigen of enterovirus .
- 3. What are the risks of enterovirus infections in pregnancy ?
- 4. They all recovered and no enterovirus isolates were found .
- 5. If enterovirus 71 is indeed the culprit , one puzzling aspect may be the high number of fatal cases in a country of only 15 million people .