Virology

Definition: Virology

Virology

Noun

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

Synonyms within Context: Virology

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Organization	Biology; natural history, organic chemistry, anatomy, physiology; zoology; botany; microbiology, virology, bacteriology, mycology; naturalist.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Virology

English words defined with "virology": virological, virologist. (references)

Specialty definitions using "virology": Microscopy, Immunoelectron ♦ VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGIST. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Virology

Domain	Title
Books	A Dictionary of Virology (3rd Edition) (reference) A Practical Guide to Clinical Virology (reference) Essentials of Diagnostic Virology (reference) Fields - Virology (Two Volume Set with CD-ROM) (reference) Introduction of Modern Virology (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Archives Of Virology (reference) Encyclopedia Of Virology Plus - Cd-rom (reference) Journal Of Clinical Virology C-w Virus Research (reference) Journal Of General Virology (reference) Virology (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Virology

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	Pictured (L-R) are Linda Han, Leslie Tengelsen, Roy Campbell, Theodore Tsai, Costin Cernescu, and Simona Ruta analyzing human sera at the Bucharest Virology Institute.Credit: CDC.		This was shot during the early construction of the CDC's new virology building. Maximum containment equipment and facilities would help CDC scientists do viral research for health problems of the 21st century.Credit: CDC.
	Steel and concrete climb before the catwalk as CDC's new virology building goes up. Maximum containment equipment and facilities continue to help CDC scientists do viral research for health problems of the 21st century.Credit: CDC.
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Usage Frequency: Virology

"Virology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Virology" is used about 10 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%	10	111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Virology

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
virology	117	clinical journal virology	3
journal virology	51	machine time virology	3
american society virology	17	field virology	3
general journal virology	12	j virology	3
virology research	9	tutorial virology	2
virology job	7	conference virology	2
exam virology	5	arizona resume virology	2
journal medical virology	5	mexico virology	2
human institute virology	4	institute national virology	2
archive virology	4	virology web	2
california resume virology	4	veterinary virology	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Virology

Language		Translations for "virology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		virologji. (various references)

Arabic		‏مبحث الفيروسات. (various references)

Bulgarian		вирусология. (various references)

Chinese		病�'學 , 病�'学. (various references)

Czech		virologie. (various references)

Danish		virologi. (various references)

Dutch		virologie. (various references)

Finnish		virusoppi, virologia. (various references)

French		virologie. (various references)

German		Virologie. (various references)

Greek		ιολογία. (various references)

Hungarian		víruskutatás. (various references)

Italian		virologia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ウイルス学 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ウイルスがく. (various references)

Pig Latin		irologyvay

Portuguese		virologista, virologia. (various references)

Russian		вирусология. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		virusologija. (various references)

Spanish		virología. (various references)

Swedish		virologi. (various references)

Turkish		viroloji. (various references)

Ukranian		вірусологія. (various references)

Vietnamese		khoa virut. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Virology

Misspellings
	"Virology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diology, hirulog, kidolgy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Virology"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "virology" (pronounced virÄ"lujē)
6	-r Ä" l u j ē	astrology, neurology, petrology, serology.
5	-Ä" l u j ē	anesthesiology, anthology, anthropology, apology, archaeology, archeology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, cardiology, chronology, cosmetology, criminology, cytology, dendrochronology, dermatology, doxology, ecology, embryology, endocrinology, entomology, epidemiology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etiology, etymology, genealogy, geology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, Hymnology, ideology, immunology, kinesiology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, numerology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, ornithology, otology, paleontology, pathology, penology, pharmacology, physiology, Pomology, psychology, radiology, rheumatology, seismology, sociology, terminology, theology, toxicology, urology, zoology.
4	-l u j ē	analogy, cosmology, elegy, eulogy, trilogy.
3	-u j ē	prodigy, strategy.
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Anagrams: Virology

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-i-l-o-o-r-v-y"
	-2 letters: gorily, groovy.
	-3 letters: girly, glory, igloo, ivory, logoi, ology, ovoli, roily, vigor.
	-4 letters: girl, giro, gory, gyri, gyro, logo, logy, lory, oily, olio, orgy, roil, viol, virl, yogi.
	-5 letters: goo, gor, goy, ivy, log, loo, oil, rig, vig.
	Words containing the letters "g-i-l-o-o-r-v-y"
	+2 letters: vigorously.
	+3 letters: provokingly.
	+5 letters: virologically.
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