| leukemia | <haematology> An acute or chronic disease of unknown cause in man and other warm blooded animals that involves the blood forming organs, is characterised by an abnormal increase in the number of leucocytes in the tissues of the body with or without a corresponding increase of those in the circulating blood and is classified according of the type leucocyte most prominently involved. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| Gross' leukaemia virus | A strain of mouse leukaemia virus. Synonym: Gross' leukaemia virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gross virus | A murine leukaemia virus obtained from inbred mice with a high incidence of spontaneous lymphoid leukaemia. Infection is passed by vertical transmission from one generation to another through the ovum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Gross' virus | A strain of mouse leukaemia virus. Synonym: Gross' leukaemia virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gross | Coarse or large; large enough to be visible to the naked eye. Origin: L. Grossus, thick (05 Mar 2000) |
| gross anatomy | General anatomy, so far as it can be studied without the use of the microscope; commonly used to denote the study of anatomy by dissection of a cadaver. See: practical anatomy. Synonym: macroscopic anatomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gross haematuria | The presence of blood in the urine in sufficient quantity to be visible to the naked eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gross heating value | (GHV) The maximum potential energy in the fuel as received. It reflects the displacement of fibre by water present in the fuel. Expressed as: GHV = HHV (1 - MC / 100) (05 Dec 1998) |
| gross lesion | A lesion plainly visible to the naked eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gross, Ludwik | <person> 20th century U.S. Oncologist. See: Gross' virus, Gross' leukaemia virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gross reproduction rate | The average number of female children a woman would have if she survived to the end of her childbearing years and if, throughout that period, she were subject to a given set of age-specific fertility rates and a given sex ratio at birth; this rate provides a measure of the replacement fertility of a population in the absence of mortality. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bovine virus diarrhoea virus | A virus of the genus Pestivirus, in the family Togaviridae, causing bovine virus diarrhoea; New York, Oregon, and Indiana strains of the virus are recognised. Synonym: mucosal disease virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abelson leukaemia virus | A defective murine leukaemia virus capable of transforming lymphoid cells and producing a rapidly progressing lymphoid leukaemia after superinfection with friend, moloney, or rauscher virus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Abelson murine leukaemia virus | A retrovirus belonging to the Type C retrovirus group subfamily (family Oncovirinae) which is associated with leukaemia and produces in vitro transformation of mouse cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adeno-associated virus | <virology> A genus of viruses in the family Parvoviridae which are all defective viruses (unable to replicate by themselves) and depend on the co-infection of their host cell by other, nondefective viruses to help them replicate. (09 Oct 1997) |