Medical Dictionary
hepatitis E
noun \-ˈē\
Medical Definition of HEPATITIS E
: a hepatitis that is rare in the United States but is common in some third-world countries, is usually contracted from sewage-contaminated water, and is caused by a highly variable single-stranded RNA virus (species Hepatitis E virus) of uncertain taxonomic affinities but related to members of the family Caliciviridae
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