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Rous sarcoma
[ rous ]
noun
, Veterinary Pathology.
- 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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