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Prion vs Porion - What's the difference?

prion | porion |

As nouns the difference between prion and porion

is that prion is prion (etiologic agent of tse) while porion is (anatomy) the point on the human skull located at the upper margin of each ear canal, and underlying the tragus.

prion

English

Etymology 1

From (a reordering of) the initial letters of proteinaceous infectious . Coined in 1982 by Stanley B. Prusiner.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (molecular biology) A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
  • *1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 277:
  • *:Prions retain deep mysteries, the foremost of which is what on earth they exist for.

    • Etymology 2

    From Prion (former genus name), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A petrel of the genus Pachyptila .

    • See also

    * bovine spongiform encephalopathy * cannibalism * Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease * kuru * mad cow disease * New Variant Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease * scrapie * viroid * virus

    Anagrams

    * , Ripon ----

    porion

    English

    Noun

    (poria) (wikipedia porion)
  • (anatomy) The point on the human skull located at the upper margin of each ear canal, and underlying the tragus.