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"Prion" Definition

noun

A microscopic protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid, thought to be the infectious agent responsible for scrapie and certain other degenerative diseases of the nervous system.

Source: American Heritage Dictionary

Any of several small petrels (genus of the family Procellariidae) of the southern hemisphere that are bluish gray above and white below.

Source: Merriam-Webster

Any of several protein particles that are abnormal forms of normal cellular proteins, that lack nucleic acid, and that in mammals have been implicated as the cause of prion diseases when accumulated in the mammalian brain.

Source: Merriam-Webster

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