SLOW VIRUS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before symptoms appear

Example:

kuru is caused by a slow virus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("slow virus" is a kind of...):

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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