virino
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1. (microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins (noun.object)
| hypernym | : | particle, subatomic particle, |
| definition | : | a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions (noun.object) |
| domain category | : | microbiology, |
| definition | : | the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans (noun.cognition) |
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