Prion disease
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Noun
- 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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More examples"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."