KURU


Meaning of KURU in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈku̇r-(ˌ)ü ]

noun

Etymology: Fore (language of eastern highland Papua New Guinea)

Date: 1957

: a rare progressive fatal spongiform encephalopathy that is caused by a prion, resembles Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and has occurred among tribespeople in eastern New Guinea who engaged in a form of ritual cannibalism

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