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prion

[′prī‚än]
(biochemistry)
Any of a group of infectious proteins that cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals, including scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in animals and Creutzefeldt-Jakob disease and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease in humans.
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