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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A norovirus.
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- noun Any of several viruses that cause acute
gastrointestinal infection
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Norwalk, Ohio, where an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred in 1968 and led to the identification of noroviruses in 1972.]
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From Norwalk, Ohio in which there was a serious outbreak in 1968
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