CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE

also Creutzfeld-Jakob disease noun Etymology: Hans G. Creutzfeldt died 1964 German psychiatrist and Alfons M. Jakob died 1931 German psychiatrist Date: 1963 a rare progressive fatal encephalopathy caused by a prion and marked by development of porous brain tissue, premature dementia in middle age, and gradual loss of muscular coordination