| KIMSA | Kirsten murine sarcoma |
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| KIMSV, Ki-MSV | Kirsten murine sarcoma virus |
| K-MSV | Kirsten murine sarcoma virus |
| KNRK | Kirsten sarcoma virus in normal rat kidney |
| KS | Kallmann syndrome; Kaposi sarcoma; Kartagener syndrome; Kawasaki syndrome; keratan sulfate; ketoster... |
| feline sarcoma | <oncology, tumour> An oncogene carried by one of the strains of the feline sarcoma virus (the Snyder-Theilen strain, Garden-Rasheed strain, McDonough strain). It causes the development of sarcoma tumours in cats. The normal product of the gene (as a proto-oncogene) seems to be a kinase enzyme that phosphorylates (attaches phosphate groups to) the amino acid tyrosine in polypeptides. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| feline sarcoma virus | <virology> A retrovirus which carries an oncogene that causes feline sarcoma (a tumour-causing disease) in cats. (09 Oct 1997) |
| leukocytic sarcoma | <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) |
| lymphatic sarcoma | <tumour> Obsolete term for lymphosarcoma. (05 Mar 2000) |