Definition of lentivirus in English:
lentivirus
noun ˈlɛntɪˌvʌɪrəsˈlɛn(t)əˌvaɪrəs
Medicine Any of a group of retroviruses producing illnesses characterized by a delay in the onset of symptoms after infection.
Example sentencesExamples
- Can't HIV, which is really a lentivirus, infect non-dividing cells?
- Svendsen and his team approached the problem using a genetically engineered viral structure known as a lentivirus.
- One feature that distinguishes lentiviruses such as HIV from the other retroviruses is the complexity of the lentiviral genome.
- As long as the HIV lentivirus lived in monkeys, it was not a threat for humans.
- Much research in the meantime had been directed to treatments for HLTV - 3 in a futile effort, because it was a lentivirus after all.
Origin
1970s: from Latin lentus 'slow' + virus.
Definition of lentivirus in US English:
lentivirus
nounˈlen(t)əˌvīrəsˈlɛn(t)əˌvaɪrəs
Medicine Any of a group of retroviruses producing illnesses characterized by a delay in the onset of symptoms after infection.
Example sentencesExamples
- One feature that distinguishes lentiviruses such as HIV from the other retroviruses is the complexity of the lentiviral genome.
- Much research in the meantime had been directed to treatments for HLTV - 3 in a futile effort, because it was a lentivirus after all.
- As long as the HIV lentivirus lived in monkeys, it was not a threat for humans.
- Can't HIV, which is really a lentivirus, infect non-dividing cells?
- Svendsen and his team approached the problem using a genetically engineered viral structure known as a lentivirus.
Origin
1970s: from Latin lentus ‘slow’ + virus.