virology
noun
vi·rol·o·gy
vī-ˈrä-lə-jē 
: a branch of science that deals with viruses and viral diseases
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The other, the lab leak hypothesis, posits that the virus escaped from a virology lab in Wuhan, China, where it may have been deliberately concocted.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Essentially every dog alive at the time caught it, Colin Parrish, a virology professor at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, told me.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2024
By then, Covid had arrived — and with it, questions that would drastically alter the political climate around virology research.
—Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
Gilead Sciences posted better-than-expected top- and bottom-line results in the latest quarter, which the company credited to its virology and oncology segments.
—Denny Jacob, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
In July, National Nurses United delivered a petition to Dr. Mandy Cohen, the C.D.C. director, that was signed by hundreds of experts in health care, virology and infection control, and dozens of unions and public health organizations.
—Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
In a surprise move, the new chief scientist at the World Health Organization backed a fact-finding mission to China despite his own doubts that COVID-19 escaped from an institute for virology in Wuhan.
—Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
Throughout 2020 and 2021, scientists with deep expertise in relevant fields, especially molecular evolutionary virology, veterinary virology and molecular phylogenetics (the drawing of family trees by comparison of genomes), were busy too.
—David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
Pandemics are rare occurrences; fewer than a handful have happened in the age of modern virology, when laboratories could provide detailed knowledge of what was causing the illness and how that pathogen was evolving.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 27 Dec. 2022
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Essentially every dog alive at the time caught it, Colin Parrish, a virology professor at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, told me.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2024
By then, Covid had arrived — and with it, questions that would drastically alter the political climate around virology research.
—Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
Gilead Sciences posted better-than-expected top- and bottom-line results in the latest quarter, which the company credited to its virology and oncology segments.
—Denny Jacob, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
In July, National Nurses United delivered a petition to Dr. Mandy Cohen, the C.D.C. director, that was signed by hundreds of experts in health care, virology and infection control, and dozens of unions and public health organizations.
—Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
In a surprise move, the new chief scientist at the World Health Organization backed a fact-finding mission to China despite his own doubts that COVID-19 escaped from an institute for virology in Wuhan.
—Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
Throughout 2020 and 2021, scientists with deep expertise in relevant fields, especially molecular evolutionary virology, veterinary virology and molecular phylogenetics (the drawing of family trees by comparison of genomes), were busy too.
—David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
Pandemics are rare occurrences; fewer than a handful have happened in the age of modern virology, when laboratories could provide detailed knowledge of what was causing the illness and how that pathogen was evolving.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 27 Dec. 2022
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First Known Use
circa 1935, in the meaning defined above
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“Virology.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/virology. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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Kids Definition
virology
noun
vi·rol·o·gy
vī-ˈräl-ə-jē
: a branch of science concerned with viruses and diseases caused by viruses
Medical Definition
virology
noun
vi·rol·o·gy
vī-ˈräl-ə-jē
plural virologies
: a branch of science that deals with viruses
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