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In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
Henry Mayhew

Meaning of "virulence" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VIRULENCE

virulence  [ˈvɪrʊləns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VIRULENCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Virulence is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VIRULENCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Virulence

Virulence is, by MeSH definition, the degree of pathogenicity within a group or species of parasites as indicated by case fatality rates and/or the ability of the organism to invade the tissues of the host. The pathogenicity of an organism - its ability to cause disease - is determined by its virulence factors. The noun virulence derives from the adjective virulent. Virulent can describe either disease severity or a pathogen's infectivity. The word virulent derives from the Latin word virulentus, meaning "a poisoned wound" or "full of poison." In an ecological context, virulence can be defined as the host's parasite-induced loss of fitness. Virulence can be understood in terms of proximate causes—those specific traits of the pathogen that help make the host ill—and ultimate causes—the evolutionary pressures that lead to virulent traits occurring in a pathogen strain.

Definition of virulence in the English dictionary

The definition of virulence in the dictionary is the quality of being virulent. Other definition of virulence is the capacity of a microorganism for causing disease.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VIRULENCE


ambulance
ˈæmbjʊləns
condolence
kənˈdəʊləns
corpulence
ˈkɔːpjʊləns
crapulence
ˈkræpjʊləns
feculence
ˈfekjʊləns
flatulence
ˈflætʃʊləns
flocculence
ˈflɒkjʊləns
fraudulence
ˈfrɔːdjʊləns
opulence
ˈɒpjʊləns
petulance
ˈpɛtjʊləns
pulverulence
pʌlˈvɛrʊləns
purulence
ˈpjʊərʊləns
redolence
ˈrɛdəʊləns
somnambulance
sɒmˈnæmbjʊləns
stridulance
ˈstrɪdjʊləns
succulence
ˈsʌkjʊləns
temulence
ˈtemjʊləns
truculence
ˈtrʌkjʊləns
turbulence
ˈtɜːbjʊləns
undulance
ˈʌndjʊləns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VIRULENCE

virtuosa
virtuose
virtuosi
virtuosic
virtuosity
virtuoso
virtuosoship
virtuous
virtuous circle
virtuously
virtuousness
virucidal
virulency
virulent
virulently
viruliferous
virus
virus chip
virus-like
virusoid

WORDS THAT END LIKE VIRULENCE

ambivalence
at your convenience
benevolence
covalence
domestic violence
equivalence
excellence
indolence
insolence
malevolence
nonviolence
par excellence
pestilence
polyvalence
prevalence
radio silence
silence
somnolence
ultraviolence
valence
violence

Synonyms and antonyms of virulence in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «VIRULENCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «virulence» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of virulence

Translation of «virulence» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VIRULENCE

Find out the translation of virulence to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of virulence from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «virulence» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

毒力
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

virulencia
570 millions of speakers

English

virulence
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डाह
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفوعة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вирулентность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

virulência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অত্যধিক তীব্রতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

virulence
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Virulence
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Virulenz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

病原性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

독성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Virulence
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lực độc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நச்சுத்தன்மைகளின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुरुपता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

öldürücülük
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

virulenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zjadliwość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вірулентність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

virulență
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λοιμογόνος δύναμη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

virulensie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

virulens
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

virulens
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of virulence

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VIRULENCE»

The term «virulence» is quite widely used and occupies the 45.160 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VIRULENCE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about virulence

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QUOTES WITH «VIRULENCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word virulence.
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Henry Mayhew
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VIRULENCE»

Discover the use of virulence in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to virulence and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Escherichia Coli: Mechanisms of Virulence
This comprehensive compilation, written by an authoritative team of international contributors, surveys the role E. coli plays in health and disease.
Max Sussman, 1997
2
Bacterial Virulence: Basic Principles, Models and Global ...
Starting with basic principles, this reference and handbook discusses examples of the most advanced models of bacterial infection with regard to their value as paradigms to understand the molecular cross-talks between microbes and their ...
Philippe Sansonetti, 2010
3
Concepts in Bacterial Virulence
This volume of the Karger book series Contributions to Microbiology summarizes some of the most important bacterial virulence mechanisms. Eminent scientists provide an update on recent findings in their fields.
Wayne Russell, Heiko Herwald, 2005
4
Bacterial Virulence Factors and Rho GTPases
The authors of this volume present the synthesis on how the various host cellular Rho GTPases activities are manipulated by bacteria to fulfill their virulence.
Patrice Boquet, E. Lemichez, 2006
5
Virulence Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogens
The fourth edition of this volume presents entirely new material on the issue of virulence mechanisms in a ground–breaking overview of the latest knowledge.
Kim A. Brogden, 2007
6
Evolution of Virulence in Eukaryotic Microbes
With the goal of linking the research findings of the many disparate scientific communities in the field, the book: Assembles for the first time a collection of chapters on the diversity of eukaryotic microorganisms and the influence of ...
L. David Sibley, Barbara J. Howlett, Joseph Heitman, 2012
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Virulence and Gene Regulation: Virulence and Gene Regulation
Advanced students in biology, medicine and agronomy will also find these three volumes a valuable reference during their studies.
Juan-Luis Ramos, 2004
8
Pathogenicity Islands and Other Mobile Virulence Elements
The important book describes the molecular mechanisms of the evolution of pathogens, including Helicobacter, Vibrio cholerae, pathogenic E. coli, Staphylococci, and others.
James B. Kaper, Jörg Hinrich Hacker, 1999
9
Genes and Proteins Underlying Microbial Urinary Tract ...
In this volume, researchers, clinical microbiologists and clinicians exchange the latest ideas covering four major aspects of this important topic: Genetic information, synthesis and assembly of virulence factors in urinary pathogens; ...
Levente Emody, 2000
10
Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Virulence
This volume brings together studies on the differences and profound similarities in the molecular mechanism of virulence between bacteria pathogenic for humans, animals and plants.
Clarence I. Kado, Jorge H. Crosa, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VIRULENCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term virulence is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Edward Fitzpatrick: Scalia's virulence undercuts his influence, and …
If you haven't done it already, you should go to Slate.com and plug your name into “The Antonin Scalia 'Sick Burn' Generator.” “When it comes to penning ... «The Providence Journal, Jul 15»
2
Microbiome Study of Colorectal Cancer Uncovers Signature of …
In particular, they found increased levels of Fusobacterium and Providencia as well as an enrichment of predicted virulence-associated genes in the colorectal ... «GenomeWeb, Jun 15»
3
Plant immunity Host mimicry of pathogen virulence targets
Two studies published in Cell describe the presence of a DNA-binding domain in a plant immune receptor that mimics the host transcription factors targeted by ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
4
Ebola Virus Virulence
Ebola Virus Virulence. The strain of Ebola that has circulated in West Africa for the last year takes longer to kill macaques than the virus that caused an outbreak ... «The Scientist, Jun 15»
5
Host response Sifting out virulent bacteria
Kamada et al. now show that IgG selectively targets virulent C. rodentium through the recognition of LEE virulence factors. To establish whether the adaptive ... «Nature.com, May 15»
6
Research in the news: Surprise regulator of Salmonella virulence
The picture in the left shows a Salmonella colony making cellulose whereas the one in the right does not. Yale researchers were surprised to learn that ... «Yale News, Apr 15»
7
Pathogen may cause high levels of virulence in closely-related hosts
In a study published today in the journal PLOS Pathogens, the researchers show that closely related species show similar levels of virulence when infected with ... «News-Medical.net, Mar 15»
8
HIV May Be Evolving Into A Less Deadly and Less Virulent Form
The new study, which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that HIV's virulence may be declining due to increasing access to ... «io9, Dec 14»
9
HIV virulence depends on where virus inserts itself in host DNA
The HIV protein integrase (blue) can insert viral DNA (red) at different locations in the DNA of its human host (orange). But how the virus selects its insertion ... «Phys.Org, Nov 14»
10
Should the creation of novel viruses be banned? – podcast
Do the benefits of creating enhanced viruses to study transmissibility and virulence outweigh the risks? Virologist Wendy Barclay and epidemiologist Marc ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»

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