proviraladj.
/ˈprəʊvʌɪrəl/, /ˈprəʊvʌɪrl̩/, U.S. /ˈproʊˌvaɪrəl/ Biology.
Of or relating to a provirus.
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proviral1961
1961 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 154 1 Viruses..may exist in three states: infectious, proviral and vegetative.
1969 C. D. Darlington in C. W. M. Whitty et al. Virus Dis. & Nervous Syst. 137 Diseases such as Kuru and Scrapie having combined genetic, cytoplasmic and pro-viral components.
1990 Nature 12 July 95/2 The researchers do not yet know whether the patient was infected with HIV-1 or HIV-2, but are planning to sequence the proviral DNA to find out.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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