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- adjective Of, pertaining to or caused by a
prion
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Examples
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Today, thanks to prionic memes, we can simply glance about and say, “Look how stupid we look now.”
"Morris dancing could be 'extinct' within 20 years because young people are too embarrassed to take part, a UK Morris association said today." Ann Althouse 2009
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There certainly are different “strains” of prions, that is, alternatively folded prionic forms of the same protein they also have different propagation properties - “fitness” if you will.
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In 1996, following on from the outbreak of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob ( "mad cow") disease, the European Union launched systems for monitoring the prionic group of illnesses - the group to which Fatal Familiar Insomnia belongs.
Emaxhealth 2009
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In 1996, following on from the outbreak of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob ( "mad cow") disease, the European Union launched systems for monitoring the prionic group of illnesses - the group to which FFI belongs.
innovations-report 2009
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