coxsackie virus

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   enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis

   Synonymscoxsackievirus

   Broaderenterovirus

Questions about coxsackie virus

What does coxsackie virus mean?

coxsackie virus means "enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis".

What is another word for coxsackie virus?

Close synonyms include coxsackievirus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coxsackie virus a common word?

coxsackie virus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.