prion disease

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prion disease

noun prion diseases

countable, uncountable Transmissible 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.

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@misc{prion_disease_2026,
  title = {prion disease},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/prion%20disease},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}