hepatitis D
Medicine
noun
(More fully hepatitis D virus) a very small, circular RNA virus resembling a plant viroid, which can replicate only in the presence of hepatitis B virus; (also) the acute or chronic liver disease caused by this, typically as an exacerbation or reactivation of hepatitis B.
Origin
1980s.
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