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v. t. e. Virome refers to the assemblage of viruses [1][2] that is often investigated and described by metagenomic sequencing of viral nucleic acids [3] that are found associated with a particular ecosystem, organism or holobiont. The word is frequently used to describe environmental viral shotgun metagenomes. Viruses, including bacteriophages ...
The human virome is the total collection of viruses in and on the human body. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Viruses in the human body may infect both human cells and other microbes such as bacteria (as with bacteriophages). [ 4 ] Some viruses cause disease, while others may be asymptomatic. Certain viruses are also integrated into the human genome as ...
Viruses are by far the most abundant biological entities on Earth and they outnumber all the others put together. [ 89 ] They infect all types of cellular life including animals, plants, bacteria and fungi. [ 6 ]: 49 Different types of viruses can infect only a limited range of hosts and many are species-specific.
lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.
A microbiome (from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós) 'small' and βίος (bíos) 'life') is the community of microorganisms that can usually be found living together in any given habitat. It was defined more precisely in 1988 by Whipps et al. as "a characteristic microbial community occupying a reasonably well-defined habitat which has ...
Percy Shelley, per Mary Shelley, had claimed to have met his own doppelgänger.. A doppelgänger [a] (/ ˈ d ɒ p əl ɡ ɛ ŋ ər,-ɡ æ ŋ-/ DOP-əl-gheng-ər, -gang-), sometimes spelled doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its own fleshly counterpart.
Poilu (/ ˈpwɑːluː /; French: [pwaly]) [1] is an informal term for a late 18th century–early 20th century French infantryman, meaning, literally, the hairy one. It is still widely used as a term of endearment for the French infantry of World War I. The word carries the sense of the infantryman's typically rustic, agricultural background ...
The reasons for seeking mental health services vary according to the individual. A transgender person seeking treatment does not necessarily mean their gender identity is problematic. The emotional strain of dealing with stigma and experiencing transphobia pushes many transgender people to seek treatment to improve their quality of life. As one ...