corona-virus

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Noun

corona-virus (plural corona-viruses)

  1. Alternative form of coronavirus
    • 1997, Michiel F. J. Blankenvoorde et al., “Antibacterial Activity against Porphyromonas Gingivalis by Cystatins”, in V. K. Hopsu-Havu, M. Järvinen, H. Kirschke, editors, Proteolysis in Cell Functions, Amsterdam: IOS Press, →ISBN, page 532:
      [T]he replication of the corona-virus and the herpes-simplex virus is blocked by cystatin C [...]
    • 2010, Rodolfo Saracci, “What is Epidemiology?”, in Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
      It took four months to identify the culprit of the new disease as a virus of the corona-virus family that had jumped to infect humans from wild small animals handled and consumed as food in the Guangdong province of China.
    • 2012 October, Stanley William (Le) Grys, “Author’s Bleak Afterthoughts”, in Chronic Degenerative Diseases: , : Ex Propriis-De Visu Research and Development Service, →ISBN, page 14:
      Especially dangerous are corona-viruses, general factors of "common cold" and reoviruses particularly pestilent for pancreas.

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