- 1朊毒體、普利昂（大陸常稱「朊病毒」，但它不是病毒）
A prion is a tiny piece of protein that can fold the wrong way and then make other proteins fold the wrong way too. Doctors think prions cause some rare brain diseases, including BSE (mad cow disease) in cows and a human disease linked to it. It is not a virus and not a bacterium — it has no DNA of its own, which is why scientists found it so strange when they first described it. The word is science and health-news language, not daily chat. These diseases are very rare; the word is for understanding the news, not for scaring anyone. Though actually, people still loosely call it a kind of . The careful point is: it is a protein, not a living bug.
組成Coined in 1982 by the American scientist Stanley B. Prusiner from a reordering of the first letters of proteinaceous infectious particle.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
prionnoun詞源 1/ˈpɹiːɒn/
- 1
A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
- Prion disease shares many features.
- Prions retain deep mysteries, the foremost of which is what on earth they exist for.
prionnoun詞源 2/ˈpɹaɪən/
- 1
A petrel of the genera Pachyptila and Halobaena.
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