naked virus, nonenveloped virus a virus lacking an outer lipoprotein bilayer. neurotropic virus one that has a predilection for and causes infection in nervous tissues, e.g., the rabies virus. Norwalk virus a calicivirus that is a common agent of epidemics of acute gastroenteritis. oncogenic viruses an epidemiologic class of viruses that are acquired by close contact or injection and cause usually persistent infection; they may induce cell transformation and malignancy.
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This article is about the computer input/output technique. For the process scheduling concept, see Blocking (computing). In computing (specifically data transmission and data storage), a block, sometimes called a physical record, is a sequence of bytes or bits, usually containing some whole number of records, having a maximum length, a block size. Data thus structured are said to be blocked.