Prion disease

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. countable, uncountable

    "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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"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."