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prion disease

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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.
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See also

prion protein prionaemia prionic prionization prionoceratid prionocerid

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