REOVIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reovirus mean? 

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

1. any of a group of non-arboviruses including the rotavirus causing infant enteritis

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REOVIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a group of non-arboviruses including the rotavirus causing infant enteritis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

animal virus (an animal pathogen that is a virus)

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

rotavirus (the reovirus causing infant enteritis)

 Context examples 

They studied two different strains of reoviruses (T1L, which can infect the intestine, and T3D-RV, which was engineered to infect the intestine) in mice.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)

Patients with celiac disease had higher levels of reovirus antibodies than controls.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)

Patients on a gluten-free diet also had higher levels of reovirus antibodies and IRF1 levels in their small intestines, suggesting reovirus infection may lead to long-lasting gene expression changes.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)

A team from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine investigated whether a common but harmless type of virus that people are frequently exposed to, called reoviruses, can prompt sensitivity to dietary proteins.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)