Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A complete viral particle, consisting of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein shell and constituting the infective form of virus.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. (virology) a complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some viruses)
Etymologies
- 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.”
“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.”
“Before a virus has entered a host cell, it is called a virion -- a package of viral genetic material.”
“The killer: a colourised transmission electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion.”
“They had focused in on a virion at sixty thousand times magnification.”
“Still others are structural proteins of the virion.”
“Cynthia S. Goldsmith; William Bellini A look inside a single measles virus particle, or virion, made with an electron microscope.”
“A look inside a single measles virus particle, or virion, made with an electron microscope.”
“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.”
“The M13 virion consists of a single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) genome surrounded by a protein coating in the form of a long filament.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘virion’.
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Substancestry
Mysterious and theoretical substances and "stuff" of legend. More emphasis on the ancient, mystical, mythical, folklore, mathematical, and scientific. I won't be listing too many "sci-fi" or comed...
ylem, ichor, aether, ectoplasm, impossible object, quark star, eucharist, pixie dust, eitr, elixir of life, philosopher's stone, alkahest and 126 more...
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exlotuseater's Words
autocthonous, anacoluthon, benthic, bactrian, caryatid, chiastic, dryad, dromedary, effulgent, elixir, fricative, fungible and 145 more...
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Transhumanity
Cribbed from Transhumanist Terminology at aleph.se, which has definitions, and is itself based on the Lextropicon.
adhocracy, aeonomics, a-life, agoric system, ai, ai-complete, aleph, algernon, amortalist, arachniography, arch-anarchy, arcology and 333 more...
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justin's Words
braii, boerewors, lekker, viva, pap, lipodystrophy, lacticacidosis, sharp, chakalaka, defaulter, eish, oof and 256 more...
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Small but deadly
Vituperative viruses : vindictive and vicious. This list doesn't even touch on the havoc wrought by bacteria, parasites, and prions.
poliomyelitis, marburg virus, ebola virus, subacute sclerosi..., progressive multi..., rabies, encephalitis leth..., lymphocytic chori..., tick-borne mening..., tropical spastic ..., dengue fever, rift valley fever and 85 more...
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exlotuseater particle/body of a virus Aug 12, 2007