| 释义 |
shope papilloma
\ˈshōp-\ noun
also shope's papilloma
Usage: usually capitalized S
Etymology: after Richard E. Shope died 1966 American physician
: a transmissible fibrous tumor of cottontail rabbits of which the transmitting agent is believed to be a specific nucleoprotein that behaves as a pathogenic virus in wild rabbits but an innocuous plasmagene in domestic ones — compare tumor virus |