Diseases
Virus
Virus noun - (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein.
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Diseases and virus are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Diseases" with "Virus", this nouns are similar.
Nearby Word: viral
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Synthetic Plague: In addition to the obvious subject of the exsurgent virus, there are a myriad of other artificial diseases in play as well.
Source: Tabletop Game / Eclipse Phase - Interestingly, this incident attracted the attention of both epidemiologists and anti-terrorism units, the former because of how similar to real-life diseases the Corrupted Blood Plague spread, and the latter because quite a few infectees tried to deliberately spread the virus.
Source: The Plague -
In the season finale, Doctor Kurian created the zombie plague over years of experimentation on people infected with deadly diseases, methodically extracting brain matter to perfect the virus.
Source: Series / Z Nation
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