KURU

Meaning of KURU in English

A slowly progressive fatal disease of the brain (a form of subacute spongiform encephalopathy) due to an infectious agent (a virus or subviral particle called a prion) transmitted among people in Papua New Guinea by ritual canabalism. The discovery of the basis of Kuru is one of the more interesting detective stories of 20th-century medicine.

English dictionary of medicine. Английский словарь медицины. 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 — n. fatal progressive brain disease transmitted by and associated with ritual cannibalism (endemic to the people of Papua New Guinea)
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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 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
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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KURUKSHETRA — also spelled Kuruksetra city, northeastern Haryana state, northwestern India. It is connected by road and rail with Delhi (south) and …
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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 …
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CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE — rare fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease occurs throughout the world at an incidence of one …
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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. …
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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

English Dictionary of Medicine

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