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vaccinia Definition

vac·cinia (vak sinē ə)

noun

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Etymology: ModL < L vaccinus: see vaccine

vaccinia Related Forms
vac·cin·ial adjective
vaccinia Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • call: One experimental approach has used a virus called vaccinia into which the gene for PSA had been cloned.

Modifies a noun

  • virus: Right: Looking down onto the intact surface of a cultured cell infected with vaccinia virus.
  • gene: Regulation of plaque size and host range by a vaccinia virus gene related to complement system proteins.
  • topoisomerase: The project will start by looking at the vaccinia type I topoisomerase enzyme.
  • infection: Vaccinia infection of cells can confer protection from IFN on other viruses, e.g. Picornaviruses.
  • recombinants: The viral cDNA sequence was used to construct vaccinia virus recombinants that expressed either the entire E2 coding sequence or fragments of it.
  • type: The project will start by looking at the vaccinia type I topoisomerase enzyme.

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