prion

prion

See also: Prion and príon

English

Etymology 1

From (a reordering of) the initial letters of proteinaceous infectious particle. Coined by American neurologist Stanley B. Prusiner in 1982.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːɒn/, /ˈpɹaɪən/; for more information, see prion § Etymology and pronunciation (Wikipedia).

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• Rhymes: -iːɒn, -aɪən

Noun

prion (plural prions)

1. (molecular biology) A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 277:

     Prions retain deep mysteries, the foremost of which is what on earth they exist for.

   • 2021 July 28, Barbara Casassus, “France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers”, in Science‎:

     Five public research institutions in France have imposed a 3-month moratorium on the study of prions—a class of misfolding, infectious proteins that cause fatal brain diseases—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.

Derived terms

• prion disease

Translations

misfolded protein

Azerbaijani: prion Bengali: প্রিয়ন (priyônô) Catalan: prió m Chinese: Mandarin: 朊病毒 (zh) (ruǎnbìngdú), 朊毒體／朊毒体 (ruǎndútǐ), 普利昂 (pǔlì'áng), 蛋白質侵染因子／蛋白质侵染因子 (dànbáizhì qīnrǎn yīnzǐ), 毒朊 (dúruǎn), 感染性蛋白質／感染性蛋白质, 感染性蛋白质 (gǎnrǎnxìng dànbáizhì), 普恩蛋白 (pǔ'ēndànbái) Esperanto: priono Finnish: prioni (fi) French: prion (fr) m German: Prion (de) m Greek: πρίον n (príon) Hebrew: פריאון‎ (he) m (prión) Indonesian: prion Italian: prione (it) m Japanese: プリオン (purion) Korean: 프리온 (peurion) Malay: prion Malayalam: പ്രിയോൺ (priyōṇ) Oriya: ପ୍ରିଅନ୍ (priôn) Persian: پریون‎ (fa) Portuguese: prião m (Portugal), príon (pt) m (Brazil) Romanian: prion m Russian: прио́н (ru) m (prión) Spanish: prion (es) m Tamil: புரதப்பீழை (puratappīḻai) Thai: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: пріо́н m (prión)

See also

• bovine spongiform encephalopathy
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• kuru
• mad cow disease
• New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• scrapie
• chronic wasting disease
• viroid

Etymology 2

From Prion (former genus name), from Ancient Greek πρίων (príōn, “saw”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹʌɪən/ (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)
• Rhymes: -ʌɪən

Noun

prion (plural prions)

1. A petrel of the genus Pachyptila.

Synonyms

• (petrel of the genus Pachyptila): pachyptile (rare)

Translations

petrel from the genus Pachyptila

Bulgarian: вълнолюбка f (vǎlnoljubka) Finnish: prioni (fi) Russian: китовая пти́чка f (kitovaja ptíčka) Spanish: pato-petrel m

Anagrams

• Ripon, orpin, ponir, porin, proin, rip on, ripon

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French

Noun

prion m (plural prions)

1. prion

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French prion.

Noun

prion m (plural prioni)

1. prion

Declension

Declension of prion

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) prion	prionul	(niște) prioni	prionii
genitive/dative	(unui) prion	prionului	(unor) prioni	prionilor
vocative	prionule		prionilor

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• prión

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾjon/ [ˈpɾjõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: prion

Noun

prion m (plural priones)

1. prion

Further reading

• “prion”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014