VIROLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does virology mean? 

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

1. the branch of medical science that studies viruses and viral diseases

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIROLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of medical science that studies viruses and viral diseases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Domain member category:

virus ((virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein)

Derivation:

virological (of or relating to the science of virology)

virologist (a specialist in virology)

 Context examples 

A subdiscipline of virology focusing on aspects of human virology that directly pertains to virus-induced clinical conditions, including epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and detection, and prevention and treatment.

(Clinical Virology, NCI Thesaurus)

It is used as an animal model for Guillan-Barre syndrome in humans, toxicology, virology.

(Japanese White Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientific issues to be addressed in solving the problem of HIV drug resistance will require the coordinated efforts of experts in structural biology and biochemistry, molecular and clinical or in vivo virology, epidemiology, and chemistry.

(HIV Drug Resistance Program, NCI Thesaurus)

A person with professional knowledge and competence in the field of medical technology that involves performing, advising on, or supervising clinical laboratory testing of human specimens, fluids and tissues, establishing and monitoring quality control systems and measures; developing data which may be used in clinical setting and in support of medical research in such areas as hematology, bacteriology, mycology, virology, parasitology, immunology, serology, immunohematology, clinical chemistry, endocrinology and toxicology, and urinalysis as they relate to clinical laboratory practice.

(Medical Technologist, NCI Thesaurus)