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Word: Oncornavirus
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1970s. From onco- + RNA (here treated as though an acronym rather than an initialism) + virus, after picornavirus
Definition:
Any retrovirus that causes malignant disease (leukaemia, lymphoma, carcinoma, etc.).
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