Definition of coronavirus in English:
coronavirus
noun kəˈrəʊnəˌvʌɪrəskəˈrōnəˌvīrəs
Medicine Any of a group of RNA viruses that cause a variety of diseases in humans and other animals.
Example sentencesExamples
- The greatest benefit appears to be in detecting rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, and parainfluenza viruses.
- Another possibility is that the human coronavirus acquired genes from another, more virulent virus.
- The most frequently observed viruses were rhinoviruses followed by coronaviruses and respiratory syncytial virus.
- SARs is believed to be a type of RNA virus called a coronavirus.
- Alternatively, it may have derived from one or more unidentified animal coronaviruses that only recently mutated or recombined to create a human pathogen, he says.