Virus
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

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HIV
The virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); it replicates in and kills the helper T cells

FLU
An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease

BUG
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

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POX
A contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks

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BANE
Something causing misery or death; "the bane of my life"

MOLD
Container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens

ZIKA

ZOON

GERM
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

SARS
A respiratory disease of unknown etiology that apparently originated in mainland China in 2003; characterized by fever and coughing or difficulty breathing or hypoxia; can be fatal

AIDS
A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles

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BEING
A living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

MOULD
Container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens

SPORE
A small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion; "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes"

TAINT
The state of being contaminated

TOXIC
Of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison; "suffering from exposure to toxic substances"

TOXIN
A poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species

VENIN

VENOM
Feeling a need to see others suffer

VIRUS
(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein

ZOOID
One of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan

MUMPS
An acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands

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POISON
Administer poison to; "She poisoned her husband but he did not die"

COWPOX
A viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox

RABIES
An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain

PLAGUE
An annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"

AEROBE
An organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life

AMEBIC
Pertaining to or resembling amoebae; "amoebic dysentery"

AMOEBA
Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion

COCCUS
Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria

FUNGUS
An organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia

MOULDY
Covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"

TROJAN
A program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful; "the contents of a trojan can be a virus or a worm"; "when he downloaded the free game it turned out to be a trojan horse"

VECTOR
(genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell

VIBRIO
Curved rodlike motile bacterium

HERPES
Any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin

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BUGBOMB

CARRIER
(genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring

MICROBE
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

MOULDER
Break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"

MEASLES
An acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children

DISEASE
An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

RUBELLA
A contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester

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FLUCAUSE

PATHOGEN
Any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism)

SMALLPOX
A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars

SWINEFLU
An acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic

ANAEROBE
An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live

BACILLUS
Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil

BACTERIA
(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants

CREATURE
A living organism characterized by voluntary movement

FUMIGANT
A chemical substance used in fumigation

MITICIDE

ORGANISM
A living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

PROTOZOA
In some classifications considered a superphylum or a subkingdom; comprises flagellates; ciliates; sporozoans; amoebas; foraminifers

REOVIRUS
Any of a group of non-arboviruses including the rotavirus causing infant enteritis

SYSTEMIC
Affecting an entire system; "a systemic poison"

TOXICANT
Having the qualities or effects of a poison

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ACARICIDE
A chemical agent used to kill mites

BACTERIUM
(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants

CONTAGION
The communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people; "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"

DEFOLIANT
A chemical that is sprayed on plants and causes their leaves to fall off

ECHOVIRUS
Any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants

ERADICANT

FUNGICIDE
Any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi

GERMICIDE
An agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease

HERBICIDE
A chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth

INFECTION
(international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure

PESTICIDE
A chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)

PROTOZOON
Any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic

RATPOISON

SPIRILLUM
Spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water

VERMICIDE
An agent that kills worms (especially those in the intestines)

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ADENOVIRUS
Any of a group of viruses including those that in humans cause upper respiratory infections or infectious pinkeye

ANTIBIOTIC
A chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections; "when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs"

ANTISEPTIC
A substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues

CORRUPTION
Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"

INDIVIDUAL
A human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

RHINOVIRUS
Any of a group of picornaviruses that are responsible for many upper respiratory infections

RICKETTSIA
Any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings

ROACHPASTE

SPIROCHETE
Parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals

TOXICOLOGY
The branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons

WEEDKILLER
A chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth

CHICKENPOX
An acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body

GYMNOSPERM
Plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary

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SUBCLINICAL
Relating to the stage in the development of a disease before the symptoms are observed

ENTEROVIRUS
Any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system)

INSECTICIDE
A chemical used to kill insects

LIVINGBEING

LIVINGTHING
A living (or once living) entity

MICROBICIDE

ROACHPOWDER

RODENTICIDE

TRYPANOSOME

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ANTHELMINTIC
Capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms

DISINFECTANT
An agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease

EPIDEMIOLOGY
The branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease

INSECTPOWDER
A chemical used to kill insects