prion
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Noun — A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
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Etymology
From (a reordering of) the initial letters of proteinaceous infectious particle. Coined by American neurologist and biochemist Stanley B. Prusiner in 1982.
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