How do you pronounce prion?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpɹiːɒn/.

prion

/ˈpɹiːɒn/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English

Syllables: pri-on
IPA: /ˈpɹiːɒn/

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Meaning

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.

noun

A petrel of the genera Pachyptila and Halobaena.

Example Sentences

"Prion disease shares many features."
"Prions retain deep mysteries, the foremost of which is what on earth they exist for."
"Five public research institutions in France have imposed a 3-month moratorium on the study of prions—a class of misfolding, infectious proteins that cause fatal brain diseases—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."

Etymology

From (a reordering of) the initial letters of proteinaceous infectious particle. Coined by American neurologist and biochemist Stanley B. Prusiner in 1982.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈpɹiːɒn/

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

prions (plural)

Derived Forms

antiprion miniprion prionaemia prionemia prionic prionlike prionochezia prionogenesis prionogenic prionopathy prionose prionosis

Phrases

prion disease prion protein bovine spongiform encephalopathy Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease mad cow disease New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease chronic wasting disease Antarctic prion

Frequently Paired Words

bovine spongiform encephalopathy Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease kuru mad cow disease New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease scrapie chronic wasting disease viroid

Synonyms

pachyptile

Rhymes With

pee-on leon dion eon creon ryan brian ian lion ion bryan o'brien