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Meaning of prion disease | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.

countable, uncountable

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.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

prion protein prionaemia prionic prionization prionoceratid prionocerid