Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
WordNet
noun
(1) Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control
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Etymology
Named after Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob.
Noun
(abbreviation CJD)
- A rare, progressive, currently fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. A prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (corneal transplants, blood transfusions).