Usually means: Misfolded protein causing neurodegenerative diseases.
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  1. prion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prion: Merriam-Webster
  3. prion, prion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. Prion, prion: Wordnik
  8. prion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  10. prion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  13. Prion (bird), Prion (infectious agent), Prion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  18. Prion: World Wide Words

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  1. Prion (infectious agent), prion: Encyclopedia

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  1. prion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  5. Prion: GLOSSARY of BLOOD RELATED TERMS
  6. Prion (infectious agent), prion: Medical dictionary
  7. Prion: Drug Medical Dictionary

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noun:  (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.
noun:  A petrel of the genera Pachyptila and Halobaena.

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