transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈhän-tə-ˌvī-rəs, ˈhən-, ˈhan- ]
noun
Etymology: New Latin, from hanta- (from Hantaan, river in South Korea near where rodents carrying the virus were collected 1974-78) + virus
Date: 1984
: any of a genus ( Hantavirus of the family Bunyaviridae ) of single-stranded RNA viruses transmitted especially by rodent feces and urine and including viruses causing serious pulmonary disease or hemorrhagic fevers marked by renal necrosis