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单词 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
释义

transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

noun

: prion disease
abbreviation TSE

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Chronic wasting disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, similar to mad cow disease, scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob. Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2021 The disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a class of diseases that includes mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2018 The disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), a family of diseases that includes scrapie, mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob. Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2018 Chronic wasting disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy that is fatal to deer, elk and moose. Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2017 Chronic wasting disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a family of prion diseases that includes Mad Cow and scrapie. Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2017 The disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a family that includes scrapie as well as mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob (both of which are fatal to humans). Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2017 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1990, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

noun

: prion disease
The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)—a very unusual group of neurodegenerative diseases involving microscopic holes in the brain—affect both humans and animals. Bette Hileman, Chemical & Engineering News,
In the last four years, 11 cases of a human form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, have been diagnosed in rural western Kentucky … The Springfield (Massachusetts) Union-News

called also TSE

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