English-Italian translations for prion

• prione
  Signor Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, il prione si sta forse diffondendo nelle Istituzioni comunitarie? Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, have the Community institutions been infected by the prion?
  Facciamo tesoro dell'esperienza determinata dal prione dell'encefalopatia spongiforme bovina. Let us learn the necessary lessons from the situation caused by the bovine spongiform encephalopathy prion.
  Perché nello stesso paese sono comparsi sia il virus dell' afta epizootica che il prione della mucca pazza? Why, in the same country, have we had the foot-and-mouth virus and the prion for mad cow disease?

Definition of prion

• A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue
• A petrel of the genus ''Pachyptila''

Related words

• Fulmar-Prion
• prionic
• Broad-billed Prion
• Salvin’s Prion
• Antarctic Prion
• Slender-billed Prion
• Fairy Prion
• MacGillivray's prion
• Salvin's prion