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FILOVIRIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Filoviridae mean? 

FILOVIRIDAE (noun)
  The noun FILOVIRIDAE has 1 sense:

1. a family of threadlike RNA viruses that cause diseases in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees)play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FILOVIRIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of threadlike RNA viruses that cause diseases in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

Meronyms (members of "Filoviridae"):

Ebola virus (a filovirus that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever; carried by animals; can be used as a bioweapon)

Marburg virus (a filovirus that causes Marburg disease; carried by animals; can be used as a bioweapon)


 Context examples 


Any viral organism that can be assigned to the family Filoviridae.

(Filoviridae, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Filoviridae infect primates, pigs and bats in nature and are a causitive agent of viral hemorrhagic fevers in humans and primates.

(Filoviridae, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of filamentous, enveloped viruses with glycoprotein surface spikes, in the family Filoviridae.

(Ebola Virus, NCI Thesaurus)



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