prion

See also Prion

English

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Etymology 1

From (a reordering of) the initial letters of proteinaceous infectious particle. Coined in 1982 by Stanley B. Prusiner.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpɹiːɒn/, /ˈpɹʌɪən/

Noun

prion (plural prions)

1. (molecular biology) A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 277:

     Prions retain deep mysteries, the foremost of which is what on earth they exist for.

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

From Prion (former genus name), from Ancient Greek πρίων (“saw”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpɹʌɪən/

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

Wikipedia ^es

Noun

prion m (plural priones)

1. prion