VIRUS

Virus

A virus is a small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of other organisms. Viruses can infect all types of life forms, from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea.

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virus

Noun

  1. Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc.
  2. A type of microscopic agent that causes an infectious disease; the disease so caused.
  3. A submicroscopic infectious organism, now understood to be a non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat. It requires a living cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism.
  4. A computer virus.


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