单词 | hepatitis b virus |
释义 | > as lemmashepatitis B virus hepatitis B n. a form of viral hepatitis that is typically spread by contaminated blood products and needles and by sexual or other close personal contact, and which can result in chronic inflammation, cirrhosis, and primary cancer of the liver; (more fully hepatitis B virus) the hepadnavirus that causes this.Hepatitis B was originally known as serum hepatitis. ΚΠ 1947 Lancet 8 Nov. 692/1 MacCallum suggests that the viruses responsible for the two forms of hepatitis should be called hepatitis viruses A and B.] 1971 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 218 1665/3 The hepatitis B immune serum globulin was evaluated at the Willowbrook State School. 1990 Vogue Sept. 410 Despite careful screening, the risk of being infected via a blood transfusion with hepatitis B, malaria, or even HIV cannot be completely discounted. 2009 New Yorker 30 Mar. 52/3 Nine Dragons was accused of labor abuses, including industrial accidents, inadequate safety equipment, and discrimination against carriers of hepatitis B, a common ailment in China. < as lemmas |
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