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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a genus of picornaviruses, including polioviruses, coxsackieviruses, and echoviruses, that infect the gastrointestinal tract and often spread to other areas of the body, especially the nervous system.

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  • noun Any of many viruses, of the genus Enterovirus, that infect the gastrointestinal tract.

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  • noun any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system)

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Examples

  • * The term enterovirus is a general description for viruses that infect and replicate in cells of the gastrointestinal tract.

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  • A pathogen called enterovirus was present in 44 of 72 pancreases tested from young people who died less than a year after being diagnosed with diabetes, researchers from Peninsula Medical School, the University of

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  • The virus is enterovirus, meaning it enters the body through the digestive tract and multiplies in the oropharynx area.

    The Jakarta Post Breaking News 2009

  • Children with recent enterovirus infections had three times higher risk for pre-diabetes.

    Exercise Boosts Brain Power Ann Lukits 2011

  • Previous studies have associated enterovirus infections with type I diabetes and pre-diabetes autoimmunity but the findings weren't conclusive.

    Exercise Boosts Brain Power Ann Lukits 2011

  • They found type I diabetics were almost 10 times as likely to have had a recent enterovirus infection as non-diabetics and to experience persistent enterovirus infections.

    Exercise Boosts Brain Power Ann Lukits 2011

  • A prospective study of the role of coxsackie B and other enterovirus infections in the pathogenesis of IDDM.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • A prospective study of the role of coxsackie B and other enterovirus infections in the pathogenesis of IDDM.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • * Lin Fang-yue林芳郁: "If we don't get the enterovirus situation under control soon, you'd better start praying."

    Jerome Cohen is Outraged Michael Turton 2009

  • After the first seven children died in March, local doctors speculated that they were dealing with an enterovirus, a family of viruses that includes polio.

    The Next Killer Virus 2008

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