proteinopathy

English

Etymology

From protein +‎ -o- +‎ -pathy.

Noun

proteinopathy (countable and uncountable, plural proteinopathies)

  1. (medicine) Any disease (especially a neurodegenerative disease) caused by a malformed protein.
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