English Explanatory Dictionary

virino

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A hypothetical infectious particle, consisting of nucleic acids in a protective coat of host cell proteins, once theorized to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.

Word forms

virino virinos
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