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polyoma virus
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | polyoma virus - a virus the can initiate various kinds of tumors in micepolyomapapovavirus - any of a group of animal viruses associated with or causing papillomas or polyomas |
polyoma virus
polyoma virus[‚päl·ē′ō·mə ′vī·rəs] (virology) A small deoxyribonucleic acid virus normally causing inapparent infection in mice, but experimentally capable of producing parotid tumors and a wide variety of other tumors. polyoma virus
pol·y·o·ma vi·rusa small naked virus with double-stranded circular DNA (genus Polyomavirus, family Papovaviridae) that normally occurs in inapparent infections in laboratory and wild mice, but after growth on tissue culture is capable of producing parotid tumors in mice and sarcomas in hamsters as well as tumors in other laboratory animals. Synonym(s): mouse parotid tumor viruspolyoma virus
Related to polyoma virus: BK virusSynonyms for polyoma virusnoun a virus the can initiate various kinds of tumors in miceSynonymsRelated Words |