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What does virus mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word virus? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (archaic) Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc.
  2. (pathology, microbiology, virology) A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism.
  3. A disease caused by these organisms.
  4. (computing) A program which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks, often causing damage to systems and data; also computer virus.
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More than 100 people have died from bird flu worldwide but the virus has so far not been spread from person to person.
She has just begun chemotherapy and her immune system is so ravaged that the most innocuous virus could kill her.
Unfortunately, the search for a cure for the GM virus was proving difficult.
National Institute of Virology, Pune has carried out serological investigations and virus isolations in different parts of the country.
Very soon, however, junkspace becomes a virus that spreads and proliferates throughout the macrocosm.
When a microbe or a virus invades the body, white cells are among the first of the body's defenses to attack the invading organisms.

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