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avirulent

adj

Etymology

From a- + virulent.

  1. derived from virulent
  2. derived from *wisós✻ — “poison; slime; fluidity”
  3. derived from vīrulentus — “poisonous”
  4. inherited from virulent — “leaking or seeping pus, purulent; (of putrefaction) extremely severe (sense uncertain)”
  5. formed as avirulent — “a- + virulent”

Definitions

  1. Not virulent.

    • An isolate from raw fish, serotype 0:6, unable to invade HeLa cells and negative for heat-stable enterotoxin, was clinically avirulent in this model and caused no lesions by histological examination.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for avirulent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA