HTLV-1

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Retrovirus causing T-cell leukemia

Synonyms:

HTLV-1; human T-cell leukemia virus-1

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("HTLV-1" is a kind of...):

retrovirus (any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell)

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