ENTEROVIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enterovirus mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTEROVIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

picornavirus (a group of single-strand RNA viruses with a protein coat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enterovirus"):

poliovirus (the virus causing poliomyelitis)

hepatitis A virus (the virus causing hepatitis A)

Coxsackie virus; coxsackievirus (enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis)

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

 Context examples 

A naturally occurring enterovirus with potential antitumor activity.

(Coxsackievirus A21, NCI Thesaurus)

This study provides further evidence that enterovirus infection may be a factor in AFM.

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

A substituted benzimidazole derivative with activity against rhinoviruses and enteroviruses.

(Enviroxime, NCI Thesaurus)

A small-molecule inhibitor with activity against viruses in the picornaviridae family, including enterovirus and rhinovirus.

(Pleconaril, NCI Thesaurus)

Newly described members of human enteroviruses are assigned continuous numbers with the species designated "human enterovirus".

(Enterovirus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Poliovirus is an enterovirus.

(Enterovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

In enteroviruses it also prevents the virus from attaching itself to the host cell.

(Pleconaril, NCI Thesaurus)

None of the CSF samples from children with Kawasaki disease had antibodies that reacted with any enterovirus.

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

Of those, six samples were positive for EV-D68, strongly indicating that enterovirus had been in the central nervous system, even though it had not been detected by VirCapSeq-VERT.

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

The investigators also sought indirect evidence of enterovirus infection by looking for antibodies to enteroviruses made by the immune system in response to an infection.

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