virinos

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A form of virino — A hypothetical infectious particle, consisting of nucleic acids in a protective coat of host cell proteins, once theorized to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of virino
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