“Epstein-Barr”

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Epstein-Barr virus

noun

: a herpesvirus (Lymphocryptovirus humangamma4) that causes infectious mononucleosis and is associated with Burkitt's lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma —abbreviation EBV

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