PRION


Meaning of PRION in English

[pri.on] n [protinaceous + infectious +

[2]-on] (1982): a protein particle that lacks nucleic acid and is sometimes held to be the cause of various infectious diseases of the nervous system (as scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)

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