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enterotropic

enterotropic adjective: attracted by, or affecting the intestine.

Adjective

enterotropic (not comparable)

  1. Attracted by, or affecting the intestine
    • The enterotropic virus is shed early during the course of infection in feces and evokes a significantly elevated antiviral cytokine response in intestines at 7 dpi when the viral replication was significantly decreased.2015 December 12, “A Newly Emergent Turkey Arthritis Reovirus Shows Dominant Enteric Tropism and Induces Significantly Elevated Innate Antiviral and T Helper-1 Cytokine Responses”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of enterotropic

From entero- + -tropic.

Questions about enterotropic

What does enterotropic mean?
Enterotropic means attracted by, or affecting the intestine.
What part of speech is enterotropic?
Enterotropic is an adjective.

Words near enterotropic in the dictionary

  1. enterotoxins
  2. enterotoxogenic
  3. enterotransporter
  4. enterotransporters
  5. enterotrophic
  6. enterotropic
  7. enterotropism
  8. enterotype
  9. enterotyped
  10. enterotypes
  11. enterotyping

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