prion

English

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Etymology 1

From proteinaceous + infectious -on.

Noun

prion (plural prions)

1. A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue

Translations

misfolded protein

Finnish: prioni (fi) French: prion (fr) m. German: Prion (de) m. Greek: πρίον (el) (príon) n. Italian: prione (it) m.

Japanese: プリオン (ja) (purion) Korean: 프리온 (ko) (peurion) Russian: прион (ru) (prión) m. Spanish: prion (es) m.

Etymology 2

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Noun

prion (plural prions)

1. A petrel of the genus Pachyptila.

Translations

petrel from the genus Pachyptila

See also

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

Anagrams

• porin, rip on

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French

Noun

prion m. (plural prions)

1. prion

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Spanish

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Noun

prion m. (plural priones)

1. prion