| 单词 | slow viral disease |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslow viral disease b. Medicine. Designating any of a group of diseases caused by viruses or virus-like agents which are characterized by a long period of latency and a course that is steadily progressive after the onset of symptoms, often with a fatal outcome; esp. in slow viral disease, slow virus disease.Some of these diseases were later recognized to be caused by prions.Cf. later slow virus n. at Compounds 2.Later examples of slow virus disease probably represent use of slow virus as a modifier. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > bacterial or viral disorders > [adjective] > viral disorders rickettsial1925 West Nile virus1940 West Nile1943 Coxsackie1949 slow1954 Norwalk1977 1954 B. Sigurdsson in Brit. Vet. Jrnl. 110 350 If the word chronic is taken to mean not only protracted, but also something which lingers on, has an irregular and unpredictable course and may end in any one of several different ways, then the expression should not be used about the diseases I have discussed here; these infections should perhaps rather be called slow infections. 1967 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 July 251/1 Transmission studies with multiple sclerosis material..have recently led to an interest in ‘slow’ virus diseases. 1976 R. H. Kimberlin Slow Virus Dis. Animals & Man i. 5 One major distinguishing feature of slow diseases..was this: once clinical signs of disease have appeared the disease then follows a regular progressive course which always ends in serious illness and usually death. 2014 A. C. Tselis & J. Boos Neurovirology 25/1 While not viral in nature, it [sc. Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease] contributed greatly to the excitement of ‘slow viral diseases’ in the 1960s and 1970s. < as lemmas |
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