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prion
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun prion has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
prion, n.
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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