ROUS SARCOMA


Meaning of ROUS SARCOMA in English

[ raʊs ]

■ noun a form of tumour caused by an RNA virus, which affects birds, particularly poultry.

Origin

early 20th cent.: named after the American physician Francis P. Rous .

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