What does "creutzfeldt-jakob disease" mean?

A rare, progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. It is a prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (e.g. corneal transplants, blood transfusions).

What is a synonym for "creutzfeldt-jakob disease"?

Common synonyms include: cjd, jakob-creutzfeldt disease.

Creutzfeldt-jakob disease

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Definitions

Noun

1
A rare, progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. It is a prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (e.g. corneal transplants, blood transfusions). uncountable
2
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 wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

cjd jakob-creutzfeldt disease

Etymology

Named after German neurologists Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885–1964) and Alfons Maria Jakob (1884–1931).

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