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transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

noun

  1. any of several encephalopathies, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, and kuru, characterized by spongy degeneration of brain tissue and believed to result from the ingestion of a toxic protein or virus.


transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

noun

  1. the full name for TSE
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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CWD is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, another of which did jump species: mad cow disease.

It is among a class of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, or TSE.

Last July four of the animals developed transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a class of diseases that includes mad cow.

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