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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
viral
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bacterial/viral/fungal infection (=caused by bacteria, a virus, or a fungus)
▪ Antibiotics are not effective against viral infections.
viral marketing
▪ You can reach more potential customers by using viral marketing techniques.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
disease
▪ There has also been continued success in the development of compounds for the treatment of specific viral diseases.
▪ By the late thirties scientists knew polio was an acute viral disease that attacked the nervous system.
▪ Trials of interferon in viral disease have certainly met with some success.
▪ The rare perennial maize proved to be resistant to seven viral diseases that plague domesticated maize.
▪ First, it often occurs after a generally innocuous viral disease.
gene
▪ Integration of the viral genes Nevertheless, some viruses that lack known cancer genes have also been found to induce cancer.
▪ It seems likely that they achieve this by integration of the viral genes next to the cellular copy of a cancer gene.
▪ These discoveries raise intriguing questions about the relationship between viral genes and the normal genes of the cell.
▪ Once viral genes have become integrated into chromosomes their activity is usually altered or totally suppressed.
▪ Proteins made by these viral genes are chewed up and displayed in the normal way when dendritic cells meet the altered bacteria.
hepatitis
▪ We report on patients with chronic viral hepatitis who died of hepatic decompensation during or shortly after interferon alfa treatment.
▪ Human bathers, too, risk viral hepatitis, skin reactions and oral thrush.
▪ These centres had treated 2490 patients with chronic viral hepatitis with interferon alfa.
▪ Some organisations knew about the different types of viral hepatitis and that there is a long incubation period.
▪ Similarly, there are mild disturbances only of acute phase reactants in chronic viral hepatitis.
▪ The aetiology of acute liver failure was viral hepatitis in all but one patients.
▪ These conditions include pulmonary tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, streptococcal septicaemia and various other diseases.
infection
▪ Several cases of spontaneous remission in acute leukaemia have been described in association with bacterial or viral infections.
▪ Headaches due to viral infections may be accompanied by fever, muscle aches, and malaise.
▪ Your Blue Ring Angel is suffering from a viral infection called Lymphocystis.
▪ In some cases, these can be treated with antibiotics, which are useless against viral infections like influenza and colds.
▪ Bacterial and Viral Infections Foals can suffer a variety of bacterial or viral infections in the first fourteen days of life.
▪ Such a trigger could be a viral infection or a traumatic life event, says Lane.
▪ Newly imported Angelfish sometimes suffer from a viral infection called Lymphocystis.
▪ Gardner missed the Washington road trip last week with a viral infection and is now taking antibiotics.
load
▪ Most patients were experiencing a large drop in viral load.
▪ That goal has been achieved if, after several months of treatment, no virus is found in the viral load.
▪ At the beginning of a cold the viral load will be very high.
▪ Thus there are several patients with an inadequate response who are remaining well despite an unsatisfactory viral load.
protein
▪ Addition of this phosphate group impairs the function of the essential protein, and viral protein synthesis fails to begin.
▪ One of the three drugs they received was ritonavir, an inhibitor of the enzyme protease, which processes key viral proteins.
▪ But exactly how viral protein synthesis is selectively inhibited, leaving cellular protein synthesis relatively unaffected, is still not clear.
▪ During these final stages host enzymes attach carbohydrate groups to certain viral proteins, converting them into glycoproteins.
replication
▪ These data suggest that the risk of liver damage is greatest in patients with active viral replication before operation.
▪ The cells destroy infected cells early, before they produce virus, thereby inhibiting viral replication, the company said.
▪ Loss of viral replication by interferon can lead to a substantial regression of liver disease and probably prolonged survival.
▪ These contain HBsAg and both nuclear and cytoplasmic HBcAg, signifying intense viral replication.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ viral pneumonia
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A fourth patient died from viral pneumonia, but this was in hospital and expected.
▪ Age was against viral pneumonia, Hoppy said.
▪ But that won't stop the many other bacterial and viral forms.
▪ Flu is a viral infection which can make even the fittest person feel quite ill.
▪ He contracted glandular fever and viral meningitis.
▪ If successful, the technique open up enormous possibilities for controlling viral infections.
▪ It lies at the centre of a viral hot zone, surrounded by farms infected with foot and mouth disease.
▪ These centres had treated 2490 patients with chronic viral hepatitis with interferon alfa.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
viral

"of the nature of, or caused by, a virus," 1948, see virus + -al. Sense of "become suddenly widely popular through Internet sharing" is attested by 1999, originally in reference to marketing and based on the similarity of the effect to the spread of a computer virus. Related: Virally.

Wiktionary
viral

a. 1 (context virology English) Of or relating to a biological virus. 2 (context virology English) Caused by a virus. 3 (context computing English) Of the nature of an informatic virus; able to spread copies of itself to other computers. 4 (context advertising and marketing English) Spread by word of mouth, with minimal intervention in order to create buzz and interest. n. (context marketing English) A video, image or text spread by "word of mouth" on the internet or by e-mail for humor, political or marketing purposes.

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WordNet
viral

adj. relating to or caused by a virus; "viral infection"

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Wikipedia
Viral

Viral may refer to:

  • Virus, a small infectious agent
  • Computer virus, a malware program
  • Meme, an idea, behavior, or style that spreads
  • Viral marketing, the use of existing social networks to spread a marketing message
  • Viral phenomenon, relating to contagion theory or the "virality" of network culture
  • Viral video, a video that quickly attains a high popularity
  • Viral (upcoming American film), an upcoming 2016 American science fiction horror drama
  • Viral (upcoming Bollywood film)
  • Viral (web series), a 2014 Brazilian comedy web series
  • V/H/S: Viral, an American anthology horror film
Viral (web series)

Viral is a Brazilian comedy web series by comedy group Porta dos Fundos, in which Gregório Duvivier stars as Beto, a man who after discovering that is carrying the HIV virus, decides to seek the latest eight women with whom he had sexual intercourse to give the news and try to find out who is the possible transmitter.

The series consists of four websodes, the first webisode premiered on April 5, 2014 at the Porta dos Fundos' YouTube channel.

Viral (film)

Viral is a 2016 American science fiction horror film directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, directed from a screenplay by Christopher Landon and Barbara Marshall. It stars Sofia Black D'Elia, Analeigh Tipton, Travis Tope, Colson Baker, and Michael Kelly. The film was released on July 29, 2016, in a limited release and through video on demand, by Dimension Films.

Viral (upcoming Bollywood film)

Viral is an upcoming Indian Bollywood 2016 based on social media film, directed by Raaj Nadar and produced by Anand Kumar and Endemol India under the Anand Kumar Productions banner. The principal photography of the film will began in February 2016.

Mandana Karimi and Raghav Juyal will be in female and male lead roles respectively. The first look of the film was released on 3 January 2015.

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Usage examples of "viral".

Whoever it was resorted to viral transfer, using adenovirus to transfer, splice, and mix human with chimpanzee DNA whole sequences at a time, a much faster process but haphazard.

Recombination of exogenous and endogenous viral genes may produce new viruses with an unknown pathogenic potential.

In the precision of harmonic structure, he hears his own conviction that the coding problem rests on a simple look-up tableat ever lower levels, a mechanism to explain cell growth, viral piracy, symbiotic coalition government of organs, the origin of species, phone impulses broken off in panic, inexplicable behavior late in the year, fitful inspiration, the continuous cold modal rapture in chords, in vivo.

The virus mistakes the drug components for natural nucleosides and subsequently incorporates them into the synthesis of viral DNA.

Sandakchiev was an expert in orthopoxviruses, the viral genus that includes smallpox.

Whether the pathogen involved is viral or bacterial, the best treatment for diarrhea is oral rehydration therapy.

Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and various forms of arthritis may occur or reoccur in response to viral activation due to stress.

They make proteins by injecting their DNA into cells, using the cells to make virus proteins and then repackaging the viral proteins.

The activities of the sequencers have revealed that wasps are not the only organisms to have bits of viral DNA hanging around in their genomes.

Emily Konigsberg that the only viral vector suitable for allomorph eradication therapy was not one under patent to Galapharma Amalgamated Concern.

In extreme contrast to the anarchic viral flurry that had spawned it, the Construct Council thought with chill exactitude.

WHO announcement, smallpox was included in a list of viral and bacterial weapons targeted for improvement in the 1981-85 Five-Year-Plan.

One of its most notable contributions was a milling machine that used a powerful blast of air to turn bacterial and viral mixtures into a fine powder.

His platelet counts dropped alarmingly and his viral count from the hepatitis soared.

In a short time, his platelet counts were back to normal, his viral count had subsided, and there were no symptoms of any disease.