COXSACKIEVIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coxsackievirus mean? 

• COXSACKIEVIRUS (noun)
  The noun COXSACKIEVIRUS has 1 sense:

1. enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis

  Familiarity information: COXSACKIEVIRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COXSACKIEVIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Coxsackie virus; coxsackievirus

Hypernyms ("coxsackievirus" is a kind of...):

enterovirus (any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system))

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor protein, plays a role in both viral infection and tight junction formation.

(CXADR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

After entering the cells, coxsackievirus A21 replicates in these cancer cells, thereby causing cancer cell lysis.

(Coxsackievirus A21, NCI Thesaurus)

Coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor (365 aa, ~40 kDa) is encoded by the human CXADR gene.

(Coxsackievirus and Adenovirus Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intratumoral administration, coxsackievirus A21 targets and binds to intracellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1) and decay acceleration factor (DAF), both cell surface molecules that are both overexpressed on certain malignant cells.

(Coxsackievirus A21, NCI Thesaurus)