单词 | prion |
释义 | prion (once / 111503 pages) n WORD FAMILY prion: prions USAGE EXAMPLESThey describe methods for detecting prions in blood that proved highly accurate in small numbers of samples from infected people and controls. Science Magazine(Dec 21, 2016) The hospital says in a statement that it is working through protocols associated with a patient suspected of having a prion disease. Washington Times(Nov 09, 2016) So far, no high-resolution structure of a mammalian prion in the amyloid state has been determined. Nature(Nov 08, 2016) 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 Hyper particle, subatomic particle a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions |
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