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coronavirion

noun

Etymology

Blend of coronavirus + virion.

  1. borrowed from virion
  2. compounded as coronavirion — “coronavirus + virion”

Definitions

  1. An individual particle of a coronavirus.

    • Coronavirions are pleomorphic, although generally spherical, 60 to 220 nm in diameter and bear widely spaced, club-shaped surface projections about 20 nm in length.
    • Our cryo-tomograms of whole coronavirions provide direct insight into the 3D structure of CoVs, revealing important features of the virion envelope and the RNP.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for coronavirion. 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