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New American Oxford Dictionary

prion

pri on 1 |ˈprīˌän ˈpriˌɑn | noun a small petrel of southern seas, having a wide bill fringed with comblike plates for feeding on planktonic crustaceans. [Genus Pachyptila, family Procellariidae: six species. ] ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: modern Latin (former genus name ), from Greek priōn a saw (referring to its sawlike bill ).

 

prion

pri on 2 |ˈprēˌän ˈpriˌɑn | noun Microbiology a protein particle that is believed to be the cause of brain diseases such as BSE, scrapie, and Creutzfeldt –Jakob disease. Prions are not visible microscopically, contain no nucleic acid, and are highly resistant to destruction. Compare with virino. ORIGIN 1980s: by rearrangement of elements from pro (teinaceous ) in (fectious particle ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

prion

prion 1 |ˈprʌɪən | noun a small petrel of southern seas, having a wide bill fringed with comb-like plates for feeding on planktonic crustaceans. Genus Pachyptila, family Procellariidae: six species. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: modern Latin (former genus name ), from Greek priōn a saw (referring to its sawlike bill ).

 

prion

prion 2 |ˈpriːɒn | noun Microbiology a protein particle that is believed to be the cause of brain diseases such as BSE, scrapie, and CJD. Prions are not visible microscopically, contain no nucleic acid, and are highly resistant to destruction. Compare with virino. ORIGIN 1980s: by rearrangement of elements from pro (teinaceous ) in (fectious particle ).

 

Duden Dictionary

Prion

Pri on Substantiv, Neutrum Medizin , das |Pr i on |das Prion; Genitiv: des Prions, Plural: die Prionen gebildet aus Pr otein und i nfektiös mit der fachsprachlich Endung -on (< griechisch -ōnē )Eiweißpartikel, das bei bestimmten Gehirnerkrankungen gefunden wird und möglicherweise Erreger dieser Krankheiten ist

 

Spanish Dictionary

prion

prion nombre masculino biol Partícula infecciosa de naturaleza proteica que tiene la capacidad de transformar otras proteínas celulares normales en priones anómalos y que se encuentra en el origen de algunas enfermedades degenerativas del sistema nervioso central .Hasta la publicación de la Ortografía académica en 2010, se permitía acentuar este término, si bien hoy es considerado un monosílabo que no precisa de tilde .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

prion

pri on /prɪ́ɑn |-ɔn /名詞 C 〘生化 〙プリオン 〘タンパク質のみからなる感染粒子; BSEの病原体とされる 〙.