oncovirus
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editoncovirus (plural oncoviruses)
- A virus that can cause cancer.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 234:
- Human oncoviruses soon followed and it became apparent that whole classes of cancer, such as cervical cancer, were indeed caused partly by viral infection.