prion disease

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Noun

prion disease (countable and uncountable, plural prion diseases)

  1. transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
    • 2021 July 28, Barbara Casassus, “France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers”, in Science‎:
      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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