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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

prion
    n 1: (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a
         virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent
         responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of
         the nervous system

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Prion \Pri"on\ (pr[=e]"[o^]n), n.
   any of several types of protein particle lacking nucleic
   acid, believed to be the cause of certain slow-developing
   infectious diseases such as scapie in sheep, and
   Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Kuru in humans. [informal]
   [PJC]

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