Rous sarcoma


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Rous sarcoma /raʊs/
noun a form of tumour caused by an RNA virus, which affects birds, particularly poultry.
– origin early 20th cent.: named after the American physician Francis P. Rous.
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