coxsackievirus love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a group of enteroviruses that are associated with a variety of diseases, including meningitis, myocarditis, and pericarditis, and primarily affect children during the summer months.

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  • noun Any of many enteroviruses that cause disease mostly in children

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Coxsackie, a village of east-central New York.]

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Examples

  • In 1996, WHO responded to an outbreak of aseptic meningitis in Cyprus caused by a non-polio enterovirus identified as coxsackievirus B5.

    Chapter 2 1998

  • Meanwhile, unbeknown to her, her two-year-old is coming down with a coxsackievirus she picked up at daycare, and Mom just shared the end of a Popsicle with her, so the virus is beginning to work on her mast cells as well.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • When coxsackievirus B3 first enters the immune system, it enters the mast cells, where it gets broken down and chopped up.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • To see how this process occurs in real time, Fairweather works in her lab with mice that have been exposed to a common virus such as coxsackievirus B3, known for short as CVB3, which can cause low-grade abdominal distress and diarrhea.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • Meanwhile, unbeknown to her, her two-year-old is coming down with a coxsackievirus she picked up at daycare, and Mom just shared the end of a Popsicle with her, so the virus is beginning to work on her mast cells as well.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • When coxsackievirus B3 first enters the immune system, it enters the mast cells, where it gets broken down and chopped up.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • To see how this process occurs in real time, Fairweather works in her lab with mice that have been exposed to a common virus such as coxsackievirus B3, known for short as CVB3, which can cause low-grade abdominal distress and diarrhea.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • The immune system must now decide whether to fight the coxsackievirus B3.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • The immune system must now decide whether to fight the coxsackievirus B3.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • "Treatment of viral myocarditis caused by coxsackievirus" B.

    Dr. Richard Palmquist: Using Herbs to Comfort Veterinary Cancer Patients 2010

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  • Eew, does this sound awful!

    July 26, 2008

  • Then I'd imagine you wouldn't want to live in Coxsackie, NY? ;-)

    July 28, 2008

  • Err, no. I'm no Coxsackier.

    July 28, 2008

  • That makes two of us.

    July 28, 2008