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Norwalk virus

Syllabification: (Nor·walk vi·rus)
Definition of Norwalk virus

noun

  • a virus that can cause epidemics of severe gastroenteritis. It has been subsumed under the genus Norovirus.

Origin:

1970s: from Norwalk, a town in Ohio where an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred from which the virus was isolated

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