All 5 Uses of
virulent
in
Arrowsmith
- investigating the mechanism of the attenuation of virulence of microorganisms.
Chpt 12 *virulence = very bad -- perhaps very contagious
- Gottlieb, the placidly virulent hater of religious rites, had a religious-seeming custom.†
Chpt 13
- With him Martin watched the heroes of yellow fever, Reed, Agramonte, Carroll, and Lazear; with him he landed in a Mexican port stilled with the plague and famished beneath the virulent sun; with him rode up the mountain trails to a hill town rotted with typhus; with him, in crawling August, when babies were parched skeletons, fought an ice trust beneath the gilt and blunted sword of the law.†
Chpt 17
- He was off on a new enthusiasm, the most virulent of his whole life: he was organizing the League of Cultural Agencies.†
Chpt 30
- The results obtained from this quantitative study permit the statement that the percentage of inactivation, as measured by determining the units of bacteriophage remaining after irradiation by gamma and beta rays of a suspension of fixed virulence, is a function of the two variables, nillicuries and hours.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
of disease: very bad -- perhaps very contagious
or
harsh or hateful
or
harsh or hateful