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CMV

CMV is the initialism of cytomegalovirus.

CMV is the initialism of cucumber mosaic virus.

CMV is the initialism of commercial motor vehicle.

CMV is the abbreviation of r/changemyview.

CMV is the initialism of change my view.

Meaning of cytomegalovirus

Noun

cytomegalovirus (plural cytomegaloviruses, abbreviation CMV)

  1. Any of several herpes viruses, of the genus Cytomegalovirus, that infect the salivary glands of certain primates, including humans.
    • The peak period for the development of acute graft-versus-host disease overlaps with the time during which cytomegalovirus infection occurs.1983, Karl G. Blume, Lawrence D. Petz, editors, Clinical Bone Marrow Transplantation, Churchill Livingstone, page 75

Meaning of cucumber mosaic virus

Noun

cucumber mosaic virus (plural cucumber mosaic viruses)

  1. A pathogen of plants that causes mottling and distortion of leaves and fruit.

Forms of CMV

pluralCMVs

Questions about CMV

What is CMV the initialism of?
CMV is the initialism of cytomegalovirus.

Words near CMV in the dictionary

  1. cmts
  2. cmts.
  3. Cmty.
  4. CMU
  5. CMUs
  6. CMV
  7. CMVs
  8. CMVSS
  9. CMY
  10. CMYB
  11. CMYK

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CMV (page history and authors); cytomegalovirus (page history and authors); cucumber mosaic virus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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