LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus mean? 

• LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS (noun)
  The noun LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS has 1 sense:

1. the RNA virus that causes lymphocytic choriomeningitis; infects mice and monkeys and dogs and guinea pigs and human beings

  Familiarity information: LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The RNA virus that causes lymphocytic choriomeningitis; infects mice and monkeys and dogs and guinea pigs and human beings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus" is a kind of...):

arenavirus (animal viruses belonging to the family Arenaviridae)

Holonyms ("lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus" is a member of...):

Arenaviridae (a family of arborviruses carried by arthropods)

 Context examples 

They next watched how macrophages changed after infection by lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), which targets the meninges, causing viral meningitis.

(Meningitis changes immune cell makeup in the mouse brain lining, National Institutes of Health)