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HPV

HPV is the initialism of human papillomavirus.

HPV is the initialism of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction.

HPV is the initialism of human-powered vehicle.

HPV is the abbreviation of hydrogen peroxide vapor.

Meaning of human papillomavirus

Noun

human papillomavirus (plural human papillomaviruses)

  1. Any of a large number of virus species or subspecies in the family Papillomaviridae that affect humans, sometimes causing cervical or other cancer; infection with such a virus is sometimes classified as a sexually transmitted disease.
    Synonyms:
    HPV

Synonyms of HPV

Forms of HPV

pluralHPVs

Questions about HPV

What is HPV the initialism of?
HPV is the initialism of human papillomavirus.

Words near HPV in the dictionary

  1. hPSCs
  2. HPSG
  3. HPT
  4. HPTs
  5. HPU
  6. HPV
  7. HPVs
  8. HPW
  9. HQ
  10. HqBn
  11. HQC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: HPV (page history and authors); human papillomavirus (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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