| Definitions | | prion |
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noun
- The etiologic agent of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. The only self-replicating cause of disease known to lack nucleic acids.
- A self-propagating alternative conformer of any protein.
- A petrel from the genus Pachyptila.
Translations: - French: prion(fr)m
- German: (t, de, Prion, m)
Etymology: From (term, proteinaceous) (term, infectious) (term, particle) ((term, -on)).
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