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R.S.V.

R.S.V. is the initialism of respiratory syncytial virus.

Meaning of respiratory syncytial virus

Noun

respiratory syncytial virus (countable and uncountable, plural respiratory syncytial viruses)

  1. Any virus in genus Pneumovirus causing respiratory tract infections.
    • The vaccine would be the first to protect babies from respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., which is the reason many infants are admitted to children’s hospitals each year and kills several hundred under 5 each year.2023 May 18, Christina Jewett, “F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 May 2023
    Synonyms:
    RSV

Questions about R.S.V.

What is R.S.V. the initialism of?
R.S.V. is the initialism of respiratory syncytial virus.

Words near R.S.V. in the dictionary

  1. R.R.
  2. R.S.
  3. R.S.F.S.R.
  4. R.S.S.
  5. R.S.S.s
  6. R.S.V.
  7. r.s.v.p.
  8. R.V.
  9. R.V.s
  10. R/C
  11. R/Cs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: R.S.V. (page history and authors); respiratory syncytial 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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