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