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BSE

1 American  

B.S.E. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Also B.S.Ed. Bachelor of Science in Education.

  2. Also B.S.Eng. Bachelor of Science in Engineering.


BSE British  

abbreviation

  1. Informal name: mad cow disease.  bovine spongiform encephalopathy: a fatal slow-developing disease of cattle, affecting the nervous system. It is caused by a prion protein and is thought to be transmissable to humans, causing a variant form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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The stock rose as much as 8.9% to 625 rupees early Tuesday before paring the gain to about 8% on the BSE around noon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

She says the outbreak of BSE, or mad cow disease, that affected beef in the 1990s was more worrying because it could affect humans.

From BBC Apr. 5, 2026

Elsewhere in Asia, India’s BSE Sensex was down 0.3%, with the country’s currency, the rupee, slipping to yet another fresh low against the dollar.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 3, 2025

The 12-year-old cow was sampled on Feb. 27 at slaughter as part of the BSE surveillance program.

From Reuters Mar. 14, 2023

The number of BSE cases plummeted after bans were introduced on feed that included meat and bone meal from infected cows believed to cause the disease.

From Seattle Times Feb. 1, 2023

Co-authors on the second study are Joan Y. Song, B.S.E.,

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2023

Carton dates his association with B.S.E. to the 2014 Super Bowl, in New Jersey.

From The New Yorker Apr. 5, 2019

Correspondence indicating that it did happen was not allowed into evidence, because it was deemed hearsay: B.S.E. executives said on the witness stand that they did not remember certain e-mails, and Carton never testified.

From The New Yorker Apr. 5, 2019

B.S.E. executives seemed to be minimizing their involvement with Carton, and with the practice of turning over tickets to secondary dealers.

From The New Yorker Apr. 5, 2019

Why We Are Not Getting Enough Sleep Caitlin Kirkwood is a Ph.D. candidate in neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh, where she received a B.S.E. in bioengineering in 2009.

From Scientific American Feb. 11, 2014

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