prion disease
11Disease, Jakob-Creutzfeldt — A transmissible degenerative brain disorder technically termed spongiform encephalopathy. Eating "mad cow" meat or squirrel brain can lead to Jakob Creutzfeldt like disease. Better known as Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD). A dementing… …
12Disease, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob — Abbreviated nvCJD. A human disease thought due to the same infectious agent as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. Both the human and bovine disorders are invariably fatal brain diseases with unusually long incubation… …
13Disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob — Abbreviated vCJD. A human disease thought due to the same infectious agent as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. Both the human and bovine disorders are invariably fatal brain diseases with unusually long incubation… …
14Disease, Jakob’s — Better known as Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD), a dementing disease of the brain. It is believed due to an unconventional, transmissible agent (a prion). Symptoms of CJD include forgetfulness, nervousness, jerky trembling hand movements,… …
15prion — I. noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek priōn saw, from priein to saw; from its sawlike bill Date: 1848 any of several small petrels (genus Pachyptila of the family Procellariidae) of the southern hemisphere that are bluish gray above and white… …
16prion — n. an abnormal form of a constituent protein (PrP) of brain cells. Prions are produced by mutations in the gene that codes for PrP and are very stable: they are not removed by the normal cellular processes of degradation and are resistant to… …
17prion — I. /ˈpraɪɒn / (say pruyon) noun any of various seabirds of the genus Pachyptila, pale blue above and pure white underneath, with a slightly wedge shaped tail, which feed by collecting planktonic organisms, especially crustaceans and squid, from… …
18Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) — A dementing disease of the brain. It is believed due to an unconventional (not a bacteria or virus), transmissible agent called a prion. Symptoms of CJD include forgetfulness, nervousness, jerky trembling hand movements, unsteady gait, muscle… …
19prion — pri•on [[t]ˈpri ɒn, ˈpraɪ [/t]] n. mcr a tiny proteinaceous particle, likened to viruses and viroids, but having no genetic component, thought to be an infectious agent in bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, and similar… …
20Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease — Classification and external resources Tonsil biopsy in variant CJD. Prion Protein immunostaining. ICD 10 A …
