virosis
nounEtymology From virus + -osis.
- In her investigations on the viroses of tobacco and potato and on cucumber mosaic in solanaceous hosts, Hoggan showed that the presence or absence of vacuolate bodies , and in some cases the combined presence of vacuolate bodies and striate material have undoubted value for the identification of certain viroses.1931, Phytopathology, volume 21, numbers 1-6, page 590:
- Derived terms
- coronavirosis, ranavirosis, virotic