ECHOVIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does echovirus mean? 

• ECHOVIRUS (noun)
  The noun ECHOVIRUS has 1 sense:

1. any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants

  Familiarity information: ECHOVIRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECHOVIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("echovirus" is a kind of...):

enterovirus (any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system))

 Context examples 

They found enteroviral genetic material (EV-A71) in only the one adult AFM case and genetic material from another enterovirus (echovirus 25) in one of the non-AFM cases.

(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)