Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A former family of DNA viruses that included the papillomaviruses and polyomaviruses.
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- noun virology Any of a group of
viruses that causepapillomas orpolyomas in animals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of a group of animal viruses associated with or causing papillomas or polyomas
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[pa(pilloma) + po(lyoma) + va(cuolation) + virus.]
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Examples
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He too had Pneumocystis carinii, as well as Candida albicans, also a fungal infection, and papovavirus, which causes regular warts in most people but in his case had led to supersized growths on his hands, forearms, and legs.
No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007
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These were important results for understanding the biology of this papovavirus and helped move the laboratory into a very rapidly advancing field of research - the molecular and cell biology of tumor viruses.
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Within a short time polyoma virus became the main interest of my laboratory, to be joined, a few years later by SV40, another papovavirus.
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