ROUS

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

1. United States pathologist who discovered viruses that cause tumors (1879-1970)

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

• ROUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States pathologist who discovered viruses that cause tumors (1879-1970)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Francis Peyton Rous; Peyton Rous; Rous

Instance hypernyms:

diagnostician; pathologist (a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis)

 Context examples 

Retrovirus-associated DNA sequences (src) originally isolated from the Rous sarcoma virus (RSV).

(Oncogene SRC, NCI Thesaurus)

Originally identified in the Rous sarcoma virus src transforming gene, Non-Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Genes encode Protein Tyrosine Kinases, enzymes important in control of cell growth, proliferation, differentiation, and transformation that do not function as receptors, but catalyze tyrosine phosphorylation of proteins with ATP, or other nucleotides as phosphate donors.

(Non-Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Gene, NCI Thesaurus)