V Ventilator A mechanical device used to artificially ventilate the lungs. A minute organism not visible with ordinary light microscopy. It is parasitic in that it is entirely dependent on nutrients inside cells for its metabolic and reproductive needs. Viruses consist of a strand of DNA or RNA, but not both, surrounded by a capsid, a covering of protein. There is no cell wall.
Viruses cause most upper respiratory infections.
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