Meanings
nounprion disease (countable and uncountable, plural prion diseases)
plural prion diseases
- countableuncountableTransmissible spongiform encephalopathy.
Five public research institutions in France have imposed a 3-month moratorium on the study of prions[…]after a retired lab worker who handled prions in the past was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the most common prion disease in humans.
2021 July 28, Barbara Casassus, “France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers”, in Science
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