See Also: bovine virus diarrhoea virus(medicine)
B virus(health)
Virus(health)
GAL virus(medicine)
virus(dictionary)
Rs virus(medicine)
FMD virus(medicine)
FA virus(medicine)
EMC virus(medicine)
EEE virus(medicine)

intractable (iou) and VS virus (medicine)


intractable (iou)



intractable adjective. L15.
[Latin intractabilis, formed as IN-3 + TRACTABLE.]
Of a thing: difficult to shape or work; not easily treated or dealt with. L15.
J. Krantz His hair still jumped up in that intractable cowlick. Scientific American Cancer and such intractable viral diseases as AIDS.
Of a person or animal: not manageable or docile; uncontrollable; refractory, stubborn. M16.
H. Read The young schoolmaster who had struggled for two years with an intractable group of..boys.
intracta'bility noun L16.
intractableness noun M17.
intractably adverb E19.

VS virus (medicine)


VS virus -->
vesicular stomatitis virus
<virology> Rhabdovirus causing the disease soremouth in cattle. Widely used as a laboratory tool especially in studies on the spike glycoprotein as a model for the synthesis, post translational modification and export of membrane proteins.