Words related to "Viral classifications": OneLook

acute retroviral syndrome

(medicine, pathology) The first, flulike, stage of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus.

arborvirus

Alternative form of arbovirus [(pathology, virology) Any virus that is transmitted by an arthropod.]

astrovirology

The study of viruses and virus-like lifeforms and life throughout the Universe (“our universe”).

endogenous retrovirus

A section of a species' genome that closely resembles retrovirus genetic material, acquired through long-ago infection.

endogenous viral element

Viral DNA embedded within the genome of a non-virus organism which is left over from an ancestral infection which integrated viral DNA into the genomic heritage of the organism's ancestry.

helpervirus

Alternative form of helper virus [A virus used to assist in the replication of viral vectors]

human immunodeficiency virus 1

(virology) A subtype of HIV, the most common and pathogenic strain of the virus, related to viruses found in chimpanzees and gorillas living in western Africa.

occlusion body

(virology) A crystalline protein matrix which occludes the nucleocapsid in some viruses.

passenger virus

Any virus that is frequently found in samples of diseased tissue but does not contribute to causing the disease.

pseudotyped

adj

(biology) Describing a chimeric virus formed with an alphaviral envelope and a retroviral capsid

pseudovirion

(virology) A synthetic viral particle that cannot replicate, used to inject foreign nucleic acid into a cell.

simian immunodeficiency virus

(virology) A species of retrovirus that causes persistent infections in several species of African non-human primates.

Sputnik

An adenovirus viral vector vaccine for COVID-19, developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia.

subvirus

(virology) An organism or substance, such as a viral protein, that is smaller than a virus and has some viral properties.

viral

adj

(computing) Of the nature of an informatic virus; able to spread copies of itself to other computers.

virino

(biology) 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.

viruliferous

adj

(biology, agriculture) Virus-carrying, especially of insects which infest agricultural crops.

virus

A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism; such agents are often classed as nonliving infectious particles and less often as microorganisms.

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