hepatitis C

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hepatitis C

An infection of the liver that is caused by an RNA virus, is transmitted primarily by blood and blood products, as in blood transfusions or intravenous drug use, and sometimes through sexual contact. Most cases of non-A, non-B hepatitis are of this type.

hepatitis C

(Medicine / Pathology) a form of hepatitis caused by a virus that is transmitted in the same ways as that responsible for hepatitis B Former name non-A non-B hepatitis

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hepatitis C - a viral hepatitis clinically indistinguishable from hepatitis B but caused by a single-stranded RNA virus; usually transmitted by parenteral means (as injection of an illicit drug or blood transfusion or exposure to blood or blood products)

viral hepatitis - hepatitis caused by a virus

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