subvirus

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noun

An organism or substance, such as a viral protein, that is smaller than a virus and has some viral properties.

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Meanings

nounsubvirus (plural subviruses)

plural subviruses

  1. biologyAn organism or substance, such as a viral protein, that is smaller than a virus and has some viral properties.

    Grélard et al.⁸⁷ determined the intimate structure of pseudoviral particles of hepatitis B subvirus using solid-state NMR, light scattering, and cryo-electron microscopy.

    2015, Slawomir Pikula, Joanna Bandorowicz-Pikula, Patrick Groves, “NMR of lipids”, in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, volume 44, Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, →ISSN, page 391

Origin

From sub- + virus.

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