virosis

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10
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7

Definition of virosis

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Any disease caused by a virus.
    “In her investigations on the viroses of tobacco and potato and on cucumber mosaic in solanaceous hosts, Hoggan showed that the presence or absence of vacuolate bodies , and in some cases the combined presence of vacuolate bodies and striate material have undoubted value for the identification of certain viroses.”

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Etymology

From virus + -osis.

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