See Also: Attenuated FAP(health)
Attenuated(health)
Attenuated(medicine)
Attenuated virus(health)
attenuated tuberculosis(medicine)
attenuated vaccine(medicine)
vaccines, attenuated(medicine)
attenuated virus(medicine)
Attenuated familial adenomatous polyposis(health)
retinaculum(dictionary)

Attenuated virus (health) and retinaculum (medicine)


Attenuated virus (health)


"To attenuate is to weaken or to make (or become) thin. Now ""attenuate"" refers to procedures that weaken an agent of disease (a pathogen). An attenuated virus is a weakened, less vigorous virus. A vaccine against a viral disease can be made from an attenuated, less virulent strain of the virus, a virus capable of stimulating an immune response and creating immunity but not causing illness."





retinaculum (medicine)


retinaculum


A hook-like structure to which another structure is tethered, in orchids and members of the family Asclepiadaceae, the structure to which pollen masses are attached, in Acanthaceae, the persistent stalk of an ovule.