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Origin of mad cow disease
1985–90
Words nearby mad cow disease
Madang, Madariaga, mad as a hatter, mad as a hornet, madcap, mad cow disease, MADD, madden, maddening, madder, madder family
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How to use mad cow disease in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for mad cow disease
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Scientific definitions for mad cow disease
mad cow disease
[ măd ]
A degenerative neurologic disease of cattle, thought to be caused by infection-causing agents called prions, in which brain tissues deteriorate and take on a spongy appearance, resulting in abnormal behaviors and loss of muscle control. A variant form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is transmitted to humans through the eating of infected cattle tissue. Also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy
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Cultural definitions for mad cow disease
mad cow disease
A lethal disease that originates in cows and can spread to humans through consumption of affected neural tissue. It is called Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease in humans. It causes the brain to deteriorate through the instrument of an infectious protein called a prion.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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