Look up: virulence

1. Virulence
   The degree of ability of an organism to cause disease.
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2. virulence
   The degree of pathogenicity of a given pathogen.
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3. Virulence
   Relative capacity to cause disease; degree or measure of pathogenicity of a pathogen. Sometimes restricted to cases in which races interact differentially with host cultivars.
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4. virulence
   [n] - extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) 2. [n] - extreme hostility
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5. Virulence
   Ability (of pathogens) to infect organisms and cause disease
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6. Virulence
   the relative ability of an organism to cause disease
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7. Virulence
   Virulence: The ability of any agent of infection to produce disease. The virulence of a microorganism (such as a bacterium or virus) is a measure of the severity of the disease it is capable of causing. The adjective virulent implies extremely noxious, damaging, deleterious, disease-causing (pathoge...
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8. virulence
   the relative ability of an organism to produce disease.; the capacity of any organism to produce disease in any stated host Category: Medicine
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9. virulence
   <microbiology> The degree or ability of a pathogenic organism to cause disease. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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10. virulence
    virulency noun extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease); `the virulence of the plague`
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11. virulence
    (vir´u-lәns) the degree of pathogenicity of a microorganism as indicated by case fatality rates or its ability to invade the tissues of the host. by extension, the competence of any infectious agent to produce pathologic effects. adj., vir´ulent., adj.
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12. Virulence
    • (n.) Alt. of Virulency
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13. virulence
    (from the article `bacteria`) ...of antibacterial antibiotics, the incidence of bacterial disease has been reduced. Bacteria have not disappeared as infectious agents, however, ... ...parasitologists believed this not to be the case. Instead, parasites were thought to evolve gradually toward reduced antagonism—having a less ... ...
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14. Virulence
    the degree of pathogenicity of a given pathogen.
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15. virulence
    Type: Term Pronunciation: vir′yū-lĕns Definitions: 1. The disease-evoking severity of a pathogen; numerically expressed as the ratio of the number of cases of overt infection to the total number infected, as determined by immunoassay.
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16. VIRULENCE
    Measure of the disease-causing capacity of an infectious disease agent.
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17. virulence
    The ability of a microorganism to cause damage to its host.
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18. Virulence
    (album) `Virulence` is the second full-length studio album from melodic hardcore band, Only Crime. It was released on January 23, 2007 and features the same line-up as the previous album, To the Nines, including Russ Rankin from Good Riddance, Bill Stevenson from Black Flag, Des...
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