virology
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- noun
- /vaɪˈrɑːlədʒi/
- Specialized
- The university offers a comprehensive course in virology that covers the latest advancements in viral research.
- Institute of Virology
- Virology Department
- virology laboratory
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- What are the basic principles of virology?
- Maybe maybe for like like biological experiments like virology or something like that.
- Blood samples from them were taken to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and elsewhere.
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COL Gibbons is chief of the Department of Virology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok.
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Dr. Maggi is a clinical virologist at the Clinical Virology Unit of the Pisa University Hospital.
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No, the people who raised this issue do not understand virology, or much of anything else.
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-That must be the virology lab.
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I just heard from the head of virology at the Biomedical facility.
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Blood samples from them were taken to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and elsewhere.
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Peter Jahrling is alive and well and head of virology at USAMRIID.
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Dr. Gumede is a medical scientist with a PhD in molecular virology.
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Her research interests are virology and molecular epidemiology of the rabies virus.
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Dr. Eckerle is a virologist at the Institute of Virology in Bonn, Germany.
Academic text (2014)
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
virology = virus (semi-transparent) = vir + ology
The meaning is fairly clear as 'the study of viruses', but the form is slightly less transparent because 'virus' appears as the bound root 'vir-' before the learned suffix '-ology'.
Etymology
Virology comes from virus, an old Latin word for 'poison' or 'harmful fluid', and -logy, which means 'study' and appears in words like biology. So virology is simply the 'study of viruses', which explains its modern meaning in science.