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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A complete viral particle, consisting of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein shell and constituting the infective form of virus.

Wiktionary

  1. n. virology A single individual particle of a virus (the viral equivalent of a cell).

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (virology) a complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some viruses)

Etymologies

  1. vir(us) + -on1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “However, Wollman understood that the bacteriophage particle, the virion, is not the direct descendant of the infecting particle.”

    André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture

  • “Briefly, when a piece of a virus, called a virion, comes in contact with a cell it likes, it may attach to special landing sites on the surface of that cell.”

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]

  • “Before a virus has entered a host cell, it is called a virion -- a package of viral genetic material.”

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]

  • “The killer: a colourised transmission electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion.”

    The Guardian: Ebola: the solution may be in sight

  • “They had focused in on a virion at sixty thousand times magnification.”

    Invasion

  • “Still others are structural proteins of the virion.”

    André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture

  • “Cynthia S. Goldsmith; William Bellini A look inside a single measles virus particle, or virion, made with an electron microscope.”

    NPR Topics: News

  • “A look inside a single measles virus particle, or virion, made with an electron microscope.”

    NPR Topics: News

  • “We actually created an 'electronic pet' in the computer, which we can experiment with under many different environments and conditions with a variety of drugs, and we can know every detail of the change in the virion, says Dr. Wei Ge, a professor of chemical engineering at CAS-IPE and a principal in the H1N1 modeling effort, told PopSci via email.”

    Gizmodo

  • “The M13 virion consists of a single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) genome surrounded by a protein coating in the form of a long filament.”

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles

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