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sarcoma viruses, murine(medicine)
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lip-read (oh)



to understand what someone is saying by watching the way their lips move, because you cannot hear them
-- lip-reading n [U]

sarcoma viruses, simian (medicine)


sarcoma viruses, simian
Species of mammalian type c retroviruses (retroviruses type c, mammalian) producing tumours in primates. Originally isolated from a fibrosarcoma in a woolly monkey, ssv is a replication-defective v-onc virus which carries the sis oncogene. In order to propagate, ssv requires a replication-competent helper virus, simian sarcoma virus-associated virus (ssav).