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slow virus slow virus
slow virus technically a virus, such as a lentivirus, that causes symptoms in an infected host long after the original infection and progresses slowly. Although many viruses fit this description, the term slow virus is usually reserved for the first recognized lentiviruses, such as the virus that... Read more
Kuru Kuru
Kuru Definition Kuru is the name of a progressively disabling and ultimately fatal brain infection caused by a unique protein particle called a prion. Description Kuru was first described in a specific tribal group in Papua, New Guinea. The word "kuru" means "to shake or tremble" in this... Read more
Antisepsis Antisepsis
Antisepsis Antisepsis is the destruction or inhibition of (slowing the growth of) microorganisms (very small living substances invisible without a microscope) that exist on living tissue. Antiseptics are the substances that kill or prevent the growth of the microorganisms. The name comes from the... Read more
virus virus
virus parasite with a noncellular structure composed mainly of nucleic acid within a protein coat. Viruses usually are too small (100-2,000 Angstrom units) to be seen with the light microscope and thus must be studied by electron microscopes. In one stage of their life cycle, in which they are... Read more
Alternative Dispute Resolution Alternative Dispute Resolution
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION Procedures for settling disputes by means other than litigation; e.g., by arbitration, mediation, or minitrials. Such procedures, which are usually less costly and more expeditious than litigation, are increasingly being used in commercial and labor disputes, divorce... Read more
Fore Fore
Fore ETHNONYMS: none Orientation Identification. The Fore people are subsistence-oriented swidden horticulturalists who live in the Okapa District of the Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Although they shared a common language, they traditionally had no group name for... Read more
Oxen Oxen
OXEN OXEN, used from the time of early settlements in America as draft animals and for plowing. Their slow pace was counterbalanced on rough, muddy pioneer roads by strength and endurance far superior to the horse. They were a favorite of loggers and early canal and railroad builders. In an 1805... Read more
Postpolio syndrome Postpolio syndrome
Postpolio Syndrome Definition Postpolio syndrome (PPS) is a condition that strikes survivors of the disease polio. PPS occurs about 20-30 years after the original bout with polio, and causes slow but progressive weakening of muscles. Description Polio is a disease caused by the poliovirus. It... Read more
AZT AZT
AZT or zidovudine , drug used to treat patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ), which causes AIDS ; also called azidothymidine. Originally developed in 1964 as an anticancer drug, AZT was never approved for that purpose. In 1984, Burroughs-Wellcome Company, which owned... Read more
stroboscope stroboscope
stroboscope , optical instrument for making a moving object appear to be slowed down or stationary. This effect is created by interrupting the observer's view so that the object is seen only at regularly spaced intervals rather than continuously. In its simplest form the stroboscope is a rotating... Read more

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