Defenition of the word prion

• Defenition of the word prion

  • An infectious agent composed of protein in a misfolded form.
  • (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system

Hypernyms for the word prion

• • particle
  • subatomic particle

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