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slow virus
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slow virus
n.
Any of a group of animal viruses that cause diseases having an unusually long incubation period, as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Also called lentivirus.
slow virus
Noun
a type of virus that is present in the body for a long time before it becomes active or infectious
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Noun1.slow virus - a virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before symptoms appear; "kuru is caused by a slow virus"
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


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