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Sendai virus
noun
, Pathology, Veterinary Pathology.
- a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Sendai virus1
1960–65; first described in Sendai, Japan
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