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SERUM HEPATITIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does serum hepatitis mean?
• SERUM HEPATITIS (noun)
The noun SERUM HEPATITIS has 1 sense:
1. an acute (sometimes fatal) form of viral hepatitis caused by a DNA virus that tends to persist in the blood serum and is transmitted by sexual contact or by transfusion or by ingestion of contaminated blood or other bodily fluids
Familiarity information: SERUM HEPATITIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An acute (sometimes fatal) form of viral hepatitis caused by a DNA virus that tends to persist in the blood serum and is transmitted by sexual contact or by transfusion or by ingestion of contaminated blood or other bodily fluids
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
hepatitis B; serum hepatitis
Hypernyms ("serum hepatitis" is a kind of...):
viral hepatitis (hepatitis caused by a virus)
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