See Also: Cytomegalovirus(medicine)
cytomegalovirus (CMV)(encyclopedia)
Cytomegalovirus(health)
cytomegalovirus infections(medicine)
cytomegalovirus polyradiculopathy(medicine)
cytomegalovirus retinitis(medicine)
human cytomegalovirus(medicine)
Cytomegalovirus infection(health)
cytomegalovirus disease(medicine)
Parsley(recipes)

cytomegalovirus (CMV) (sh) and parsley (iou)


cytomegalovirus (CMV) (sh)




Any of several viruses in the herpes family.

Active infection produces enlarged cells enclosing foreign matter. Most prevalent in crowded, poor communities, it is transmitted by sexual contact or infected body fluids. It rarely causes serious illness in healthy adults; however, it can lead to serious consequences, including blindness, in those with depressed immune systems. In newborns, even without spleen and liver enlargement (10% of cases), CMV is the most common infection and a major cause of congenital deafness; it may also induce retardation and blindness. There is no effective treatment.


parsley (iou)



parsley noun. ['p¨»:sli]
[Old English petersilie, corresp. to Middle Dutch petersilie (mod. -selie), Old High German petersilia (German Petersilie), and Old French peresil (mod. persil), from Proto-Romance var. of Latin petroselinum from Greek petroselinon, from petra rock + selinon parsley.]
An umbelliferous plant, Petroselinum crispum, much grown for its finely divided, usu. curled, aromatic leaves, which are used to flavour or garnish dishes; the leaves of this plant. Also, any Other plant of the genus Petroselinum. OE.
With specifying words: any of various umbelliferous plants related to parsley or resembling it in their finely divided leaves. E16.
cow parsley, fool's parsley, hedge parsley, milk parsley, stone parsley, etc.
Comb.: parsley-bed a bed of parsley, esp. as a supposed place where babies are born (cf. GOOSEBERRY-bush); parsley breakstone = PARSLEY-PIERT; parsley caterpillar the larva of the anise swallowtail butterfly, Papilio zelicaon, which is a pest of umbelliferous plants in western N. America; parsley fern a fern of mountain screes, Cryptogramma crispa, with finely divided fronds like parsley leaves; parsley frog a western European spade-foot toad, Pelodytes punctatus, with green spots on its back; parsley-leaved elder a cultivated variety of elder with laciniate leaves, Sambucus nigra 'laciniata'; parsley sauce a white sauce flavoured with parsley; parsleyworm the larva of the black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio polyxenes asterius, which is a pest of umbelliferous plants in eastern N. America.
parsleyed adjective (of Food) cooked or served with parsley E20.