Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a family of single-stranded RNA viruses including the respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza viruses, and viruses that cause measles and mumps.
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- noun Any member of the Paramyxoviridae
family of negative-sense single-strandedRNA viruses responsible for a number of human and animal diseases.
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- noun a group of viruses including those causing mumps and measles
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet the pandemic virus is identified as a paramyxovirus, agents that typically have longish incubation periods; e.g., 10 to 12 days for measles; 16 to 18 days for mumps, three to five days for respiratory syncytial virus.
Slate Magazine Arthur Allen 2011
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Yet the pandemic virus is identified as a paramyxovirus, agents that typically have longish incubation periods; e.g., 10 to 12 days for measles; 16 to 18 days for mumps, three to five days for respiratory syncytial virus.
Slate Magazine Arthur Allen 2011
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The so-called paramyxovirus has been implicated in more than a dozen outbreaks in South Asia.
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And when I say "satisfying," I mean I squealed with delight every time I heard a Microbiology 1650 buzzword: fomite, paramyxovirus, live attenuated vaccine, encephalitis, and pleiomorphic, just to name a few.
Priya Malhotra: The Facts and Fiction of On-Screen Medicine Priya Malhotra 2011
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And when I say "satisfying," I mean I squealed with delight every time I heard a Microbiology 1650 buzzword: fomite, paramyxovirus, live attenuated vaccine, encephalitis, and pleiomorphic, just to name a few.
Priya Malhotra: The Facts and Fiction of On-Screen Medicine Priya Malhotra 2011
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And when I say "satisfying," I mean I squealed with delight every time I heard a Microbiology 1650 buzzword: fomite, paramyxovirus, live attenuated vaccine, encephalitis, and pleiomorphic, just to name a few.
Priya Malhotra: The Facts and Fiction of On-Screen Medicine Priya Malhotra 2011
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And when I say "satisfying," I mean I squealed with delight every time I heard a Microbiology 1650 buzzword: fomite, paramyxovirus, live attenuated vaccine, encephalitis, and pleiomorphic, just to name a few.
Priya Malhotra: The Facts and Fiction of On-Screen Medicine Priya Malhotra 2011
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And when I say "satisfying," I mean I squealed with delight every time I heard a Microbiology 1650 buzzword: fomite, paramyxovirus, live attenuated vaccine, encephalitis, and pleiomorphic, just to name a few.
Priya Malhotra: The Facts and Fiction of On-Screen Medicine Priya Malhotra 2011
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Chimpanzees at Mahale Mountains National Park (Tanzania) are suffering from a respiratory disease that is likely a variant of a human paramyxovirus.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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And, likewise, we infected with parainfluenza-3 -- that's a paramyxovirus -- and you see a little barcode here.
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