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polyoma virus (sh) and Ivy bleeding time test (medicine)


polyoma virus (sh)




Minute infectious agent normally present in extremely small amounts in wild mice without causing obvious ill effects.

It may induce cancerous tumours if grown in tissue culture and injected in large quantities into newborn mice or young hamsters, guinea pigs, and rabbits. It belongs to the Papovaviridae family of viruses.


Ivy bleeding time test (medicine)


Ivy bleeding time test


A bleeding time test in which a sphygmomanometer is inflated to 40 mm Hg around the upper arm, a 5-mm deep incision is made on the flexor surface of the forearm, and the time is measured to cessation of bleeding.