Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being virulent, or charged with virus.
- noun Synonyms Poisonousness, venom, deadliness.
- noun Asperity, Harshness. See
acrimony .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.
- noun Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
virulent - noun a measure of how virulent a thing is
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun extreme hostility
- noun extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease)
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Examples
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Throughout the manuscript, the term virulence factor will be used in accordance with the definition proposed by Wood et al; "A component of a pathogen that when deleted specifically impairs virulence but not viability"
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Konstantin Kadzhaev et al. 2009
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It is very noteworthy here that one must certainly not conclude that the loss of disease-causing activity for cattle necessarily means a decrease in virulence for other animals.
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What wonder, that this year, when as we are told, its virulence is unexampled in
II.2 1826
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This is the part that makes us sick that they call virulence in the article.
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This is the part that makes us sick that they call virulence in the article.
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Current tests have been conducted in a maximum bio-hazard facility, and the results indicate that this virus’s virulence is exactly as advertised, killing mice and monkeys in remarkably short periods.
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Current tests have been conducted in a maximum bio-hazard facility, and the results indicate that this virus’s virulence is exactly as advertised, killing mice and monkeys in remarkably short periods.
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The harshness with which a parasite treats its host—what biologists call virulence—contains a trade-off.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The harshness with which a parasite treats its host—what biologists call virulence—contains a trade-off.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The harshness with which a parasite treats its host—what biologists call virulence—contains a trade-off.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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