Definition of Tumor virus

1. Noun. A cell-free filtrate held to be a virus responsible for a specific neoplasm.

Generic synonyms: Virus
Specialized synonyms: Wound Tumor Virus, Wtv

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumor Virus

tumidnesses
tummal
tummals
tummelberries
tummelberry
tummies
tummler
tummlers
tummo
tummy
tummy crunch
tummy tuck
tumor
tumor marker
tumor necrosis factor
tumor virus (current term)
tumoral
tumorectomy
tumored
tumorgenesis
tumoricidal
tumorigeneses
tumorigenesis
tumorigenic
tumorigenicities
tumorigenicity
tumorless
tumorlike
tumorogenesis
tumorogenic

Literary usage of Tumor virus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"The notion of a specific tumor-virus held by some of the highest authorities is thus fully disposed of. There are recorded a number of successful ..."

2. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"0521 tumor virus Epidemiology Repository Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute, ..."

3. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, Bennett J. Cohen, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"The etiology is unknown, but the evidence implicates a tumor virus (Chapman et al., l967; Kakuk et al., ..."

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