Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A complete viral particle, consisting of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein shell and constituting the infective form of a virus.
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- noun virology A
single individualparticle of avirus (the viral equivalent of acell ).
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- noun (virology) a complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some viruses)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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However, Wollman understood that the bacteriophage particle, the virion, is not the direct descendant of the infecting particle.
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Before a virus has entered a host cell, it is called a virion -- a package of viral genetic material.
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Briefly, when a piece of a virus, called a virion, comes in contact with a cell it likes, it may attach to special landing sites on the surface of that cell.
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The killer: a colourised transmission electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion.
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They had focused in on a virion at sixty thousand times magnification.
Invasion Cook, Robin, 1940- 2000
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Still others are structural proteins of the virion.
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A look inside a single measles virus particle, or virion, made with an electron microscope.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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We actually created an 'electronic pet' in the computer, which we can experiment with under many different environments and conditions with a variety of drugs, and we can know every detail of the change in the virion, says Dr. Wei Ge, a professor of chemical engineering at CAS-IPE and a principal in the H1N1 modeling effort, told PopSci via email.
Gizmodo Kristen Philipkoski 2011
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Cynthia S. Goldsmith; William Bellini A look inside a single measles virus particle, or virion, made with an electron microscope.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The M13 virion consists of a single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) genome surrounded by a protein coating in the form of a long filament.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Marianne De Paepe et al. 2010
exlotuseater commented on the word virion
particle/body of a virus
August 13, 2007