noun
enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis
• Syn: ↑Coxsackie virus
• Hypernyms: ↑enterovirus
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/kok sak"ee vuy'reuhs, kook sah"kee-/, n., pl. coxsackieviruses.
any of a group of viruses closely related to the virus of poliomyelitis, causing certain diseases of humans, as herpangia and epidemic pleurodynia.
Also, Coxsackie virus.
[1945-50; after Coxsackie, N.Y., where the first known case appeared]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.