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Definition: Virion |
VirionNoun1. A complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some viruses). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The infective system of a virus, composed of the viral genome, a protein core, and a protein coat called a capsid, which may be naked or enclosed in a lipoprotein envelope called the peplos. (references) |
Medicine | A complete, mature, infectious virus particle. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Virion |
| English words defined with "virion": retrovirus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "virion": Bacteriophage lambda, Bacteriophage phi 6, Bacteriophage T4 ♦ Gene Products, gag, Gene Products, rev, Gene Products, vif, Gene Products, vpu, Genes, rev, Genes, vif ♦ Hepatitis B Antigens, Hepatitis B Core Antigens, Hepatitis B Virus ♦ Nucleocapsid ♦ Tobamovirus. (references) |
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 | Bullet-shaped virion is covered with 10-nm glycoprotein spikes. Ribonucleoprotein is composed of RNA encased in nucleoprotein (yellow), phosphorylated or phosphoprotein (orange), and polymerase (gray).Credit: CDC. |  | The virion is variable in shape and size (average diameter of between 120-300nm). RSV is the most common cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia among infants and children under 1 year of age.Credit: CDC. |
 | Electron micrographs from top to bottom: Variola virion (forms M and C), Varicella virion and virion core, Vaccinia virion (forms M and C).Credit: CDC. | ||
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Health | Nucleocapsids are introduced into the cytoplasm by pH-dependent fusion of the virion with the endosomal membrane. (references) | |
The virion is variable in shape and size (average diameter of between 120 and 300 nm), is unstable in the environment (surviving only a few hours on environmental surfaces), and is readily inactivated with soap and water and disinfectants. (references) | ||
There are four serotypes types of HPIV (1 through 4) and two subtypes (4a and 4b). The virion varies in size (average diameter between 150 and 300 nm) and shape, is unstable in the environment (surviving a few hours on environmental surfaces), and is readily inactivated with soap and water. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Virion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Virion" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hiv virion | 11 |
virion | 8 |
system virion | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "virion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | viruspartikel, virion. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | virale-infectiviteitsfactor (vif gene, virion-infectivity factor gene), vif-gen (vif gene, virion-infectivity factor gene). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | virion, particule virale. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Viruspartikel, Virion, Elementarkörperchen. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | σωματίδιο ιού. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | virion. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | irionvay gen vif (vif gene, virion-infectivity factor gene), factor de infectividad del virión (vif gene, virion-infectivity factor gene). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "virion": virions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-n-o-r-v" | |
-2 letters: inro, iron, noir, nori, vino. | |
-3 letters: ion, nor, rin. | |
-4 letters: in, no, on, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-n-o-r-v" | |
+1 letter: vibrion, virions. | |
+2 letters: revision, vibrions, vibronic, visoring, vizoring. | |
+3 letters: codriving, diversion, divorcing, forgiving, frivoling, improving, inversion, nonvirgin, prevision, privation, providing, provision, revisions, revoicing, variation, vermilion, vibration, vibriones, vibrionic, visionary. | |
+4 letters: coderiving, contriving, derivation, disproving, diversions, divinatory, environing, frivolling, inversions, invigorate, invitatory, jarovizing, nontrivial, nonvirgins, outdriving, overliving, overmining, overmixing, overriding, overtiming, overtiring, previsions, privations, provincial, provisions, provitamin, redivision, reinvasion, reinvoking, rhinovirus, riboflavin, valorising, valorizing, vanitories, vaporising, vaporizing, variations, vermilions, vermillion, vibrations, vindicator, viraginous, vitrioling, voiceprint. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 69 72 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .. .-. .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101001 01110010 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V i r i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0069 0072 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)567584758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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