prion

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.2.2 See also 1.3 Anagrams 2 French 2.1 Noun 3 Spanish 3.1 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

From proteinaceous + infectious -on.

[edit] Noun

prion (plural prions)

1. The etiologic agent of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. The only self-replicating cause of disease known to lack nucleic acids.
2. A self-propagating alternative conformer of any protein.
3. A petrel from the genus Pachyptila.

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• bovine spongiform encephalopathy
• cannibalism
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• kuru
• mad cow disease
• New Variant Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• scrapie
• viroid
• virus

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: inopr
• porin

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[edit] French

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prion m. (plural prions)

1. prion

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prion m. (plural priones)

1. prion