vesicular stomatitis

noun

, Veterinary Pathology.

1. a disease of horses, swine, and cattle, similar in its symptoms to foot-and-mouth disease, and characterized by blisters on the lips, snout, and oral mucous membranes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of vesicular stomatitis¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The second shot used another virus, called vesicular stomatitis virus.

From New York Times

She made nearly 950 changes, hoping to modify the coronavirus gene just enough to take the place of a similar gene belonging to a benign virus: the vesicular stomatitis virus, or VSV.

From Los Angeles Times

Theodora Hatziioannou and Paul Bieniasz at the Rockefeller University in New York City and their colleagues engineered a version of the vesicular stomatitis virus, which infects livestock, to make the spike protein.

From Nature

State Veterinarian Samantha Beaty said in a news release that vesicular stomatitis virus, or VSV, has not yet entered Tennessee, but it has sickened livestock in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.

From Washington Times

Related vaccines, such as one against Ebola using the vesicular stomatitis virus as a vehicle, can copy themselves, which increases the risk of side effects or illness due to the vehicle.

From Nature