AVIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does avian mean? 

• AVIAN (adjective)
  The adjective AVIAN has 1 sense:

1. pertaining to or characteristic of birds

  Familiarity information: AVIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pertaining to or characteristic of birds

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

Pertainym:

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

 Context examples 

It is the type strain for avian paramyxoviruses.

(Newcastle disease virus, NCI Thesaurus)

Some of the major diseases currently affecting countries around the globe include HIV/AIDS, malaria, pandemic/avian flu, and tuberculosis.

(International Health, NIH)

Retrovirus-associated DNA sequences originally isolated from, or related to, the avian erythroblastosis virus (AEV).

(ERB Oncogene Family, NCI Thesaurus)

C. psittaci is pathogenic, being the causative agent of endemic avian chlamydiosis and epizootic infection in mammals.

(Chlamydophila psittaci, NCI Thesaurus)

Retrovirus-associated DNA sequences (ERYTHROBLASTOSIS VIRUS, AVIAN, hence erbA) originally isolated from the avian erythroblastosis virus.

(Oncogene ERB A, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

ERBB DNA sequences are related to certain avian erythroblastosis virus sequences.

(Oncogene ERB B, NCI Thesaurus)

A proto-oncogene, identified in several avian tumors, encoding a nuclear protein with a leucine zipper motif.

(Oncogene MYC, NCI Thesaurus)

An oncogene from an avian sarcoma virus.

(Oncogene JUN, NCI Thesaurus)

Oncogene ETS was originally discovered as a chimeric component, along with a truncated v-myb gene, in the genome of E26, an avian leukosis virus.

(Oncogene ETS, NCI Thesaurus)

Retrovirus-associated DNA sequences (erbB) originally isolated from, or related to, the avian erythroblastosis virus (AEV).

(Oncogene ERB B, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)