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- Virus - v. i. - Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons.
- Virus - v. i. - The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there.
- Virus - v. i. - Fig.: Any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the soul; as, the virus of obscene books.
- Contagion - n. - That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.
- Pasteurism - n. - A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.
- Venereal - a. - Arising from sexual intercourse; as, a venereal disease; venereal virus or poison.
- Inoculate - v. t. - To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.
- Take - v. i. - To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take.
- Vaccine - n. - The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination.
- Entheic - a. - Caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis.
- Virus - v. i. - Fig.: Any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the soul; as, the virus of obscene books.
- Isopathy - n. - The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.