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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rhinovirus

1961, from rhino- + virus.

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rhinovirus

n. Any of many common infectious RNA viruses, of the genus (taxlink Rhinovirus genus noshow=1), that cause disorders such as the common cold.

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rhinovirus

n. any of a group of picornaviruses that are responsible for many upper respiratory infections

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Rhinovirus

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 the nose. Rhinoviruses is a genus within the Picornaviridae family of viruses.

There are 99 recognized types of human rhinoviruses that differ according to their surface proteins ( serotypes). They are lytic in nature and are among the smallest viruses, with diameters of about 30 nanometers. By comparison, other viruses, such as smallpox and vaccinia, are around 10 times larger at about 300 nanometers.

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.