TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY Definition & Meaning

transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

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

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Examples have not been reviewed.

CWD is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, another of which did jump species: mad cow disease.

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

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

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