ENCEPHALOMYOCARDITIS


Meaning of ENCEPHALOMYOCARDITIS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ˌmī-ə-kär-ˈdī-təs ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin

Date: 1947

: an acute febrile disease especially of swine and some nonhuman primates caused by a picornavirus (species Encephalomyocarditis virus of the genus Cardiovirus ) and marked by degeneration and inflammation of skeletal and cardiac muscle and lesions of the central nervous system

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