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virus

vi·rus

virus

pronunciation:: vaI rs
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part of speech:	noun
inflections:	viruses
definition:	A virus is a tiny living thing that lives in other living things and sometimes causes people to get sick. Viruses spread from one living thing to another--like the way you might get sick if someone in your family is sick. Colds are caused by viruses, and some very serious diseases are caused by viruses too. Jaden caught a virus and was sick for two weeks.Alicia's grandmother got sick with a virus and had to go to the hospital.
related words:	germ

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	broader categories that include viruses
	germ
	results of some viruses
	death, fever, rash, sickness, suffering
	some carriers of viruses
	food, germs, insects, mosquito
	some conditions resulting from viruses
	chicken pox, cold, disease, infection, influenza
	some living things that are affected by viruses
	animals, bacteria, cell, human, plant
	some processes involving viruses
	develop, spread
	some things that affect viruses
	medicine, shot, surgery, vaccine
	some things that are affected by viruses
	health, lungs