virus | (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts, many are pathogenic, a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein |
parainfluenza virus | a virus that causes upper respiratory infection (including the common cold and bronchiolitis), most often in children |
Junin virus | the RNA virus that causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever, carried by rats and mice |
Lassa virus | the RNA virus that causes Lassa fever |
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus | the RNA virus that causes lymphocytic choriomeningitis, infects mice and monkeys and dogs and guinea pigs and human beings |
Machupo virus | the RNA virus that causes Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, carried by rats and mice |
Ebola virus | a filovirus that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever, carried by animals, can be used as a bioweapon |
Marburg virus | a filovirus that causes Marburg disease, carried by animals, can be used as a bioweapon |
West Nile virus West Nile encephalitis virus | the flavivirus that causes West Nile encephalitis |
myxoma virus | a poxvirus closely related to smallpox virus, causes benign gelatinous tumors in humans |
variola virus smallpox virus | the virus that causes smallpox in humans, can be used as a bioweapon |
variola major variola major virus | a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to percent |
variola minor variola minor virus | a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about percent |
tobacco mosaic virus TMV | the widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic, it was the first virus discovered () |
plant virus | a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA |
animal virus | an animal pathogen that is a virus |
human Tell leukemia virus- HTLV- | retrovirus causing Tell leukemia |
human immunodeficiency virus HIV | the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), it replicates in and kills the helper T cells |
respiratory syncytial virus | a paramyxovirus that forms syncytia in tissue culture and that is responsible for severe respiratory diseases such as bronchiolitis and bronchial pneumonia (especially in children) |
hepatitis A virus | the virus causing hepatitis A |
coxsackievirus Coxsackie virus | enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis |
herpes herpes virus | any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin |
herpes simplex herpes simplex virus | a herpes virus that affects the skin and nervous system |
herpes zoster herpes zoster virus | a herpes virus that causes shingles |
herpes varicella zoster herpes varicella zoster virus | a herpes virus that causes chickenpox and shingles |
Epstein-Barr virus EBV | the herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis, associated with specific cancers in Africa and China |
varicella zoster virus | the member of the herpes virus family that is responsible for chickenpox |
human papilloma virus | any of a group of papovaviruses associated with genital or oral carcinomas or a group associated with benign genital tumors |
polyoma polyoma virus | a virus the can initiate various kinds of tumors in mice |
slow virus | a virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before symptoms appear, kuru is caused by a slow virus |
onion yellow-dwarf virus | the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of onion plants |
potato yellow-dwarf virus | the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of potato plants |
tumor virus | a cell-free filtrate held to be a virus responsible for a specific neoplasm |
wound tumor virus WTV | a tumor virus transmitted by leafhoppers |
mosaic | art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass |
mosaic arial mosaic photomosaic | arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture |
mosaic | transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube |
mosaic | a pattern resembling a mosaic |
mosaic culture | a highly diverse culture, the city's mosaic culture results in great diversity in the arts |
anti-virus program | a computer program that checks a computer for viruses and prevents their spread |
Mosaic | a freeware browser |
virus computer virus | a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer, a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance |
Mosaic law Law of Moses | the laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses, it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah) |
Arabis genus Arabis | annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia: rockcress |
sicklepod Arabis Canadensis | North American rock cress having very long curved pods |
tower cress tower mustard Arabis turrita | European cress having stiff erect stems, sometimes placed in genus Turritis |
tower mustard tower cress Turritis glabra Arabis glabra | or genus Arabis: erect cress widely distributed throughout Europe |
virus | a harmful or corrupting agency, bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread, the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone |
viral infection virus infection | infection by a virus that is pathogenic to humans |
mosaic | viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves |