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Dovelike petrel
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prion
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
petrel-like bird, 1848, from Greek prion "a saw," related to priein , prizein "to saw, to be cut in pieces." So called for its bill.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN disease ▪ There are three human prion diseases and four main prion diseases of animals. ▪ Accumulating data indicate that heterozygosity at codon 129 plays an important part in the phenotypic expression of familial prion ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context molecular biology English) A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue. Etymology 2 n. A petrel of the genus ''Pachyptila''.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A prion is an infectious agent composed entirely of protein material, called PrP (short for prion protein), that can fold in multiple, structurally distinct ways , at least one of which is transmissible to other prion proteins, leading to disease that is ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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]
Usage examples of prion.
They hypothesized through the study of yeast that prions may hold the key to genetic mutations, even play a role in evolution.
After isolating the immortalizing traits from teratoma sources, I proposed that viral, retroviral, and even prion vectors might be engineered to transfer the selected traits into the human genome.
Prions were particulate and subviral in size, so since certain viruses could be airborne, why not certain Prions?
No one seems to know where these prions originally come from, but when they get into your system they wreak havoc.
We found entries about all kinds of human prion diseases-kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Gerstmann-Straussler syndrome-and the veterinary syndromes, scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, but it's all old, old stuff.
Mr Fortescue, though freely admitting the justice of Dr Maturin's observations in general, had indeed been more fortunate, particularly in respect of the great albatross, Diomedea exulans, to which the Doctor had so feelingly referred: he had been cast away on Tristan da Cunha, where he had lived with and upon albatrosses, thousands and thousands of albatrosses, to say nothing of the penguins, terns, skuas, prions, the indigenous gallinule and a hitherto nondescript finch.
A prion is a smallish protein molecule that can act as a catalyst for the formation of more protein molecules just like itself.
And there were others helping in the search, working ahead of him on the frontiers, and beside him in related fields, from the small—virology, where the inquiries into tiny forms such as prions and viroids were revealing even smaller forms, almost too partial to be called life: virids, viris, virs, vis, vs, all of which might have relevance to the larger problem.
And there were others helping in the search, working ahead of him on the frontiers, and beside him in related fields, from the small-virology, where the inquiries into tiny forms such as prions and viroids were revealing even smaller forms, almost too partial to be called life: virids, viris, virs, vis, vs, all of which might have relevance to the larger problem.
When a yeast cell divides, it copies its DNA to each half, but it shares the prions (which can be topped up by converting other proteins).
When a yeast cell divides, it copies its DNA to each half, but it shares the prions (which can be topped up by converting other pro.