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VIROLOGY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does virology mean?

• VIROLOGY (noun)
The noun VIROLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of medical science that studies viruses and viral diseases

Familiarity information: VIROLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• VIROLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The branch of medical science that studies viruses and viral diseases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("virology" is a kind of...):

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Domain member category:

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)

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