Definitions

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

  • noun Any of a family of viruses that contain double-stranded RNA and are associated with various diseases in animals, including human respiratory and gastrointestinal infections.

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  • noun biology Any of a group of RNA viruses, of the family Reoviridae, that infect animals and some plants

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  • noun any of a group of non-arboviruses including the rotavirus causing infant enteritis

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[r(espiratory) + e(nteric) + o(rphan) + virus.]

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Examples

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  • Researchers in Canada have detected a novel oncolytic viral therapy against prostate cancer with use of a virus called the reovirus, according to study results published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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  • The company was founded on the trail to making the remarkable cancer treatment that involves infecting patients with a harmless virus called a reovirus (Respiratory [...]

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  • The company was founded on the trail to making the remarkable cancer treatment that involves infecting patients with a harmless virus called a reovirus (Respiratory [...]

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  • The company was founded on the trail to making the remarkable cancer treatment that involves infecting patients with a harmless virus called a reovirus (Respiratory [...]

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  • The company was founded on the trail to making the remarkable cancer treatment that involves infecting patients with a harmless virus called a reovirus (Respiratory [...]

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  • The respiratory, enteric, orphan virus (commonly known as reovirus) is a non-attenuated, environmental virus that has shown oncolytic potential against many types of cancer, specifically lymphoid, ovarian, breast, pancreatic and high grade glioma cancer, according to the study.

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  • "The reovirus is a very common, ubiquitous virus that most people are exposed to.

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