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Australian X disease virus(medicine)
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prima (iou) and Australian X disease (medicine)


prima (iou)



prima noun. M18.
[from Italian, fem. of primo first.]
A prima donna, a prima ballerina.

Australian X disease (medicine)


Australian X disease -->
Murray Valley encephalitis


A severe encephalitis with a high mortality rate occurring in the Murray Valley of Australia; the disease is most severe in children and is characterised by headache, fever, malaise, drowsiness or convulsions, and rigidity of the neck; extensive brain damage may result; it is caused by the Murray Valley encephalitis virus (genus Flavivirus).

Synonym: Australian X disease, Australian X encephalitis.