virosis
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virosis (plural viroses)
- (pathology) Any disease caused by a virus.
- 1931, Phytopathology, volume 21, numbers 1-6, page 590:
- 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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- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯iːˈroː.siːs/, [u̯iːˈroːs̠iːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈro.sis/, [viˈrɔːs̬is]
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vīrōsīs
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virosis f (plural virosis)
Further reading edit
- “virosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014