Virino
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Virino is a noun meaning (biology) A hypothetical infectious particle, consisting of nucleic acids in a protective coat of host cell proteins, once theorized to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.
Meaning
(biology) A hypothetical infectious particle, consisting of nucleic acids in a protective coat of host cell proteins, once theorized to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.
Word Forms
- virinos
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include virion, pseudovirion, poliovirion, viron, previrion, retrovirion.
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