See Also: noli me tangere(dictionary)
noli-me-tangere(medicine)
Noli's Pizza(tourism)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
prion(medicine)
prion(encyclopedia)
prion(dictionary)
prion(1)(dictionary)
prion(2)(dictionary)
prion diseases(medicine)

noli-me-tangere (medicine) and prion (medicine)


noli-me-tangere (medicine)


noli-me-tangere


1. <botany> Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. See Impatiens. The squirting cucumber. See Cucumber.

2. <medicine> A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.

Origin: L, touch me not.

Source: Websters Dictionary


prion (medicine)


prion


The word, for proteinaceous infectious agent, was coined in 1982 by neurologist Stanley Prusiner as part of a hypothesis regarding ailments bearing aetiologic resemblance to those caused by slow viruses (for instance, kuru). The hypothesis has been borne out by investigation. Prions are now believed responsible for several transmissible neurodegenerative diseases

Origin: proteinaceous infectious particle