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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

	Prion \Pri"on\ (pr[=e]"[o^]n), n.
   any of several types of protein particle lacking nucleic
   acid, believed to be the cause of certain slow-developing
   infectious diseases such as scapie in sheep, and
   Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Kuru in humans. [informal]
   [PJC]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0

	prion
     n : (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a
         virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent
         responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases
         of the nervous system

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