KURU

Meaning of KURU in English

n. fatal progressive brain disease transmitted by and associated with ritual cannibalism (endemic to the people of Papua New Guinea)

Explanatory English dictionary bed edition. Толковый словарь английского языка Редакция bed. 2012

KURU — noun Etymology: Fore (language of eastern highland Papua New Guinea) Date: 1957 a rare progressive fatal spongiform encephalopathy that is …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
KURU — ˈkü(ˌ)rü noun ( -s ) Etymology: Fore (language of eastern highland Papua New Guinea) : a rare progressive fatal spongiform …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
KURU — /koor"ooh/ , n. Pathol. a fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system characterized by progressive lack of coordination and …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
KURU — noun Etymology: Fore (language of eastern highland Papua New Guinea) Date: 1957 : a rare progressive fatal spongiform encephalopathy that …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
KURU — [ 'kʊru: ] ■ noun a fatal brain disease occurring in New Guinea, spread by cannibalism and believed to be …
Concise Oxford English vocab
KURU — [ku.ru] n [Fore (language of eastern highland Papua New Guinea)] (1957): a rare progressive fatal encephalopathy that is caused by …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
KURU — fatal degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. Kuru has been found only among the Fore people and related ethnolinguistic …
Britannica English vocabulary
KURU — kuru BrE AmE ˈkʊr uː
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
KURU — [Hindu] A prince of the Lunar race, ancestor of the Kauravas and the Pandavas whose battle is the theme of …
Encyclopedia Mythica English vocab
KURU — A slowly progressive fatal disease of the brain (a form of subacute spongiform encephalopathy) due to an infectious agent (a …
English Dictionary of Medicine
KURU — a field
Khowar English Dictionary
KURU — Куру
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
KURU — куру (болезнь нервной системы из группы медленных вирусных инфекций; встречается в Новой Гвинее)
Новый Англо-Русский медицинский словарь
KURU — Куру
Британский Англо-Русский словарь
KURU — n. Pronunciation: ' ku ̇ r-( ˌ )ü Function: noun Etymology: Fore (language of eastern highland Papua New Guinea) Date: …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
KURU, FINLAND — Куру
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
GAJDUSEK, D(ANIEL) CARLETON — born Sept. 9, 1923, Yonkers, N.Y., U.S. U.S. physician and researcher. He received his M.D. from Harvard University. He provided …
Английский словарь Британика
TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY — any of several encephalopathies, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, and kuru, characterized by spongy degeneration of brain tissue and believed …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SLOW VIRUS — Pathol. a virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before producing symptoms, as in several neurological …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SLOW VIRUS — [slow virus] n (1954): any of various viruses with a long incubation period between infection and development of a degenerative …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PRION — also called Whalebird, any of several species of small Antarctic seabirds of the genus Pachyptila, in the family Procellariidae (order …
Britannica English vocabulary
BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY — (BSE) also called mad cow disease a fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is caused by an infectious …
Britannica English vocabulary
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MAHABHARATA — (SanskritGreat Epic of the Bharata Dynasty) one of the two major Sanskrit epics of India, valued for its high literary …
Britannica English vocabulary
KURUKSHETRA — also spelled Kuruksetra city, northeastern Haryana state, northwestern India. It is connected by road and rail with Delhi (south) and …
Britannica English vocabulary
GAJDUSEK, D. CARLETON — born Sept. 9, 1923, Yonkers, N.Y., U.S. in full Daniel Carleton Gajdusek American physician and medical researcher, corecipient (with Baruch …
Britannica English vocabulary
CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE — rare fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease occurs throughout the world at an incidence of one …
Britannica English vocabulary
GAJDUSEK, DANIEL CARLETON — born Sept. 9, 1923, Yonkers, N.Y., U.S. U.S. physician and researcher. He received his M.D. from Harvard University. He provided …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
GAJDUSEK, D CARLETON — born Sept. 9, 1923, Yonkers, N.Y., U.S. U.S. physician and researcher. He received his M.D. from Harvard University. He provided …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
ILLNESS — n. 25B6; noun SICKNESS, disease, ailment, complaint, malady, affliction, infection, indisposition; ill health, poor health, infirmity; informal bug, virus; Brit. …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
HINDU MYTHOLOGY — All the articles available in the Hindu mythology section of the Encyclopedia Mythica: Abarimon; Abhijit; Adimurti; Adityas; Agastya; Aghora; Agni; …
Encyclopedia Mythica English vocab
PRIONS — A new type of disease-causing agent, neither bacterial nor fungal nor viral, containing no genetic material, a prion is a …
English Dictionary of Medicine

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