TUMOR VIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tumor virus mean? 

• TUMOR VIRUS (noun)
  The noun TUMOR VIRUS has 1 sense:

1. a cell-free filtrate held to be a virus responsible for a specific neoplasm

  Familiarity information: TUMOR VIRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUMOR VIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cell-free filtrate held to be a virus responsible for a specific neoplasm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tumor virus" is a kind of...):

virus ((virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein)

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

wound tumor virus; WTV (a tumor virus transmitted by leafhoppers)

 Context examples 

It is the genus to which the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) belongs.

(Betaretrovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

The role of steroid receptors in chromatin remodeling and transcription is exemplified by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-mediated transactivation of the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter.

(hSWI-SNF Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

An exogenous, infectious mouse mammary tumor virus isolated from BALB/cNIV/Crgl mice, thought to be derived from the endogenous low oncogenic mouse mammary tumor virus found in C3Hf mice. (from Cancer Res. 1984 Oct;44(10):4333-6)

(Nodule-Inducing Virus, NCI Thesaurus)