prion disease

English

Noun

prion disease (countable and uncountable, plural prion diseases)

1. transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
   • 2021 July 28, Barbara Casassus, “France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers”, in Science‎^[1]:

     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.

Hyponyms

• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Anagrams

• sideropenias