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Sendai′ vi′rus, [Pathol., Vet. Pathol.]
- Veterinary Diseases, Microbiologya paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
- first described in Sendai, Japan 1960–65