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respiratory syncytial virus en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Any virus in genus Pneumovirus causing respiratory tract infections.
    • The vaccine would be the first to protect babies from respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., which is the reason many infants are admitted to children’s hospitals each year and kills several hundred under 5 each year. 2023 May 18, Christina Jewett, “F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 May 2023:

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Hyponyms

Murine respiratory syncytial virus · Ovine respiratory syncytial virus · Human respiratory syncytial virus · Caprine respiratory syncytial virus · Bovine respiratory syncytial virus

Synonyms

RSV

Translations (9)

fr virus respiratoire syncytial (virus) · de Respiratorisches Synzytial-Virus (virus) · hu respiratorikus szinciciális vírus (virus) · pt vírus sincicial respiratório (virus) · ro virus respirator sincițial (virus) · fi RS-virus (virus) · ro virus sincițial respirator (virus) · hu légúti óriássejtes vírus (virus) · cmn 呼吸道融合病毒 (virus)