All virus synonyms
vi·rus
V v noun virus
- convalescence — Convalescence is the period or process of becoming healthy and well again after an illness or operation.
- bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
- influenza — Pathology. an acute, commonly epidemic disease, occurring in several forms, caused by numerous rapidly mutating viral strains and characterized by respiratory symptoms and general prostration. Compare flu.
- antibodies — any of numerous Y -shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense, each molecule and its clones having a unique binding site that can combine with the complementary site of a foreign antigen, as on a virus or bacterium, thereby disabling the antigen and signaling other immune defenses. Abbreviation: Ab.
- bacilli — bacillus
- communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- bacillus — A bacillus is any bacterium that has a long, thin shape.
- antibody — Antibodies are substances which a person's or an animal's body produces in their blood in order to destroy substances which carry disease.
- diseasedness — The state of being diseased; sickness.
- organism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- illness — unhealthy condition; poor health; indisposition; sickness.
- hiv — a variable retrovirus that invades and inactivates helper T cells of the immune system and is a cause of AIDS and AIDS-related complex: variants were identified in several laboratories and independently named lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) and AIDS-related virus (ARV) the name human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) being subsequently proposed by an international taxonomy committee.
- hiv positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- hiv-positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- flus — influenza.
- contagion — Contagion is the spreading of a particular disease by someone touching another person who is already affected by the disease.
- contagiousness — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- malady — any disorder or disease of the body, especially one that is chronic or deepseated.
- micro-organism — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
- badgerer — One who badgers.
- microbe — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- infection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- aids — AIDS is a disease which destroys the natural system of protection that the body has against other diseases. AIDS is an abbreviation for 'acquired immune deficiency syndrome'.
- germ — a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- flu — influenza.
- computer virus — virus
- insanitation — lack of sanitation or sanitary regulation; unclean or unhealthy condition.
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- disease — a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
- microorganism — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.