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Bulgarian
Etymology
Biological term borrowed from English retrovirus, coined in the 1980's. Equivalent to ретро- (retro-, “former, backwards”) + вирус (virus).
The name refers to the reverse pattern of replication of the virus - by first transcribing intrusive DNA from the virale own RNA, which is then attached to the DNA sequence of the host cell.
Noun
ретрови́рус • (retrovírus) m
- (virology) retrovirus (viruses from family Retroviridae of class VI in Baltimore's classification)
- (by generalizaiton) ortervirus (any virus which uses reverse transcriptase for replication)
Declension
Declension of ретрови́рус