BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY


Meaning of BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY in English

Function: noun

Date: 1987

: a fatal spongiform encephalopathy of cattle affecting the nervous system, resembling or identical with scrapie of sheep and goats, and prob. caused by a prion transmitted by infected tissue in food ― abbreviation BSE ― called also mad cow disease

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