myxovirus
American Heritage Dictionary:
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myx·o·vi·rus
(mĭk'sə-vī'rəs) 
n., pl., -rus·es.
Any of a group of RNA-containing viruses, including those that cause influenza, typically having an affinity for certain mucins and causing agglutination of red blood cells.
n., pl., -rus·es.
Any of a group of RNA-containing viruses, including those that cause influenza, typically having an affinity for certain mucins and causing agglutination of red blood cells.
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia:
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myxovirus
Any of a group of viruses that are agents of influenza and can cause the common cold, mumps, and measles in humans, canine distemper, rinderpest in cattle, and Newcastle disease in fowl. The virus particle is encased in a fatty membrane, variable in shape from spheroidal to threadlike, and studded with spikelike protein projections; it contains RNA. These viruses react with a protein on the surface of red blood cells; many of them cause red blood cells to clump together.
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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary:
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myx·o·vi·rus
(mĭk'sə-vī'rəs)
n.
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Formerly, any of a group of RNA-containing viruses with an affinity for mucins, now included in the families of Orthomyxoviridae and Paramyxoviridae. These viruses include the influenza virus, parainfluenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, and measles virus.
Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry:
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myxovirus
any of a group of negative-strand RNA animal viruses, now divided into orthomyxoviruses and paramyxoviruses.
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