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-stranded RNA 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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Ancient Greek para-, beyond, -myxo-, mucus or slime, and Latin virus, poison, slime.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • The so-called paramyxovirus has been implicated in more than a dozen outbreaks in South Asia.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • And, likewise, we infected with parainfluenza-3 -- that's a paramyxovirus -- and you see a little barcode here.

    Joe DeRisi solves medical mysteries 2006

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