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Rous sarcoma

[ rous ]

noun

, Veterinary Pathology.
  1. a malignant tumor occurring in the connective tissue of poultry, caused by a transmissible RNA-containing virus.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Rous sarcoma1

After F. P. Rous, who described it in 1910

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