All 11 Uses of
spontaneous
in
The Hot Zone
- The red spots, which a few days before had started out as starlike speckles, have expanded and merged into huge, spontaneous purple shadows: his whole head is turning black-and-blue.†
p. 17..9
- You wanted to dissect the animals quickly, before the spontaneous liquefaction began, because you can't dissect gumbo.†
p. 60..8
- The woman then aborted spontaneously, and the nun who assisted at this grotesque delivery came away from the experience with blood on her hands.†
p. 104..2 *
- Spontaneous rips appear in the skin, and hemorrhagic blood pours from the rips.†
p. 105..9
- The red spots on the skin grow and spread and merge to become huge, spontaneous bruises, and the skin goes soft and pulpy, and can tear off if it is touched with any kind of pressure.†
p. 106..1
- The virus is a catastrophe for a pregnant woman: the child is aborted spontaneously and is usually infected with Ebola virus, born with red eyes and a bloody nose.†
p. 107..9
- The small red spots became large, spontaneous bruises.†
p. 135..7
- The Ebola Reston virus jumped quickly from room to room, and as it blossomed in the monkeys, it seemed to mutate spontaneously into something that looked quite a lot like influenza.†
p. 358..3
- It seemed that the virus could adapt quickly to new hosts, and that it could change its character spontaneously and rapidly as it entered a new population.†
p. 359..0
- It is a hypermutant, a shape shifter, spontaneously altering its character as it moves through populations and through individuals.†
p. 408..6
- It mutates even in the course of one infection, and a person who dies of HIV is usually infected with multiple strains, which have all arisen spontaneously as mutants in the body.†
p. 408..7
Definition:
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(spontaneous) behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner
or:
happening naturally (without planning or external force)