coxsackievirus
[kok-sak-ee-vahy-ruh s, koo k-sah-kee-]
noun, plural cox·sack·ie·vi·rus·es.
any of a group of viruses closely related to the virus of poliomyelitis, causing certain diseases of humans, as herpangia and epidemic pleurodynia.
Also Cox·sack·ie vi·rus.
Origin of coxsackievirus
First recorded in 1945–50; after Coxsackie, N.Y., where the first known case appeared
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