pathogenic agent

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• prion — prion1 /pruy on/, n. any of several petrels of the genus Pachyptila, located in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere and having serrated edges on the bill. [1840 50; < NL < Gk príon a saw] prion2 /pree on, pruy /, n. a tiny proteinaceous… …   Universalium

• reaction — 1. The response of a muscle or other living tissue or organism to a stimulus. 2. The color change effected in litmus and certain other organic pigments by contact with substances such as acids or alkalies; also the property that such substances… …   Medical dictionary

• Prusiner, Stanley — ▪ 1997       In San Francisco in the early 1970s, a young neurology resident named Stanley Prusiner was in charge of a patient who died of a rare fatal degenerative disorder of the brain called Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. At the time little was… …   Universalium