This Lexvo.org page describes the entity referred to by the URI http://lexvo.org/id/wordnet/30/noun/prion_1_17_00. A machine-readable RDF version of this description is provided here.
| rdfs:comment | (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system ('en' language string) |
| rdfs:label | prion ('en' language string) |
| lvont:broader | lexvo:wordnet/30/noun/particle_1_17_00 |
| lvont:label | lexvo:term/eng/prion |
| lvont:nearlySameAs | http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/synset-prion-noun-1 |
| skos:note | This resource corresponds to the meaning of the gloss text. It shares its meaning with that of the synonym set rather than denoting the WordNet synset. ('en' language string) |
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