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rhinovirus
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Word definitions for rhinovirus in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of a group of picornaviruses that are responsible for many upper respiratory infections
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of many common infectious RNA viruses, of the genus (taxlink Rhinovirus genus noshow=1), that cause disorders such as the common cold.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rhinoviruses (from the Greek (gen.) "nose") are the most common viral infectious agents in humans and are the predominant cause of the common cold . Rhinovirus infection proliferates in temperatures between 33–35 °C (91–95 °F), the temperatures found in ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1961, from rhino- + virus .
Usage examples of rhinovirus.
They had begun giving routine rhinovirus antivirals nearly twenty years ago.
They had begun giving routine rhinovirus antivirals nearly twenty years ago.
Let's not confuse our ERV with someone else's ERV—equine rhinovirus, for example, or ecotropic recombinant retrovirus, or, something we've all experienced in these sessions, a sudden loss of expiratory reserve volume.
A fictional recombinant virus made from the nuclear polyhedrosis virus, the rhinovirus, and smallpox.
Simply modifying the gene in those actually exposed to the rhinovirus wouldn't work, because it would have been a purely somatic mutation, which means it would have died with the first generation of hosts.
Simply modifying the gene in those actually exposed to the rhinovirus wouldnt work, because it would have been a purely somatic mutation, which means it would have died with the first generation of hosts.