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prion

/prahy-on/US // ˈpraɪ ɒn //UK // (ˈpraɪən) //

朊病毒,朊蛋白,朊粉,朊粒

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several petrels of the genus Pachyptila, located in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere and having serrated edges on the bill.

Examples

  • In 2019, another lab worker in the country died of a prion disease at the age of 33.

  • When a misfolded prion enters the mix, it can corrupt the normal prion proteins around them, prompting them to misfold as well, clump together, and corrupt others.

  • What prion proteins do normally is still unclear, but they're readily found in the human brain.

  • The other disease is a prion disease such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which has not yet been shown to be destroyed by composting.

  • Onset is typically during middle age, which is characteristic of the long incubation periods most prion diseases show.

  • Caused by a deformed protein known as a prion, the disease attacks and destroys the brain and spinal cord in cattle.

  • The mountain Prion was called Lepre Acta; it overhangs the present city, and has on it a portion of the wall.

  • Even now the farms at the back of the Prion retain the name in the term Opistholepria.

  • Prion lui donc merci seurement se diable nus uout enconbrer .