prion

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Noun
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pri=on

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun prion has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

prionn. 
     any of several types of protein particle lacking nucleic acid, believed to be the cause of certain slow-developing infectious diseases such as scapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Kuru in humans.  [PJC]

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