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English noun: virino

1. virino (object) (microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins


Broader (hypernym)particle, subatomic particle


Domain categorymicrobiology









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