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Virulence(health)
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virulence (iou)



virulence noun. LME.
[from VIRULENT: see -ENCE.]
Discharge from a wound; pus. Only in LME.
Extreme acrimony or bitterness of temper or expression; violent hostility or rancour. E17.
Dickens The ill will of Miss Knag had lost nothing of its virulence. R. Fuller What..drunken virulence from Sammy had sent me from the house.
The property or quality of being physically virulent; extreme poisonousness or venomousness; exceptional severity (of disease). M18.
b. Microbiology. The relative capacity of (a strain of) a micro-organism to cause disease; degree of pathogenicity. M20.
virulency noun virulence E17.