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RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS

Dictionary entry overview: What does respiratory syncytial virus mean?

• RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS (noun)
The noun RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS has 1 sense:

1. 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)

Familiarity information: RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

respiratory syncytial virus ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("respiratory syncytial virus" is a kind of...):

paramyxovirus (a group of viruses including those causing mumps and measles)

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