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HTLV-1
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Retrovirus causing T-cell leukemia
Synonyms:
HTLV-1; human T-cell leukemia virus-1
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("HTLV-1" is a kind of...):
retrovirus (any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell)