Kuru

//ˈkʉː.ɹʉː//

Synonyms for "kuru" (7 found)

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Closest matches (2)

kurus laughing death

Strong matches (2)

Noun(1 words)

laughing death

laughing sickness

Related words (3)

Noun(1 words)

laughing sickness

piaster piastre

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

3 entries

nervous disorder neurological disease neurological disorder

Synonyms

2 entries

laughing death laughing sickness

is a

4 entries

disease nervous disorder prion disease turkish monetary unit

part of

1 entries

lira

related to

8 entries

cannibalism chronic fatal fore new guinea prion progressive scrapie

Translations

8 translations across 8 languages.

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

庫魯病 /库鲁病 noun (central nervous system disease)

Esperanto

1 entries

kuruo noun (central nervous system disease)

Finnish

1 entries

kuru noun (central nervous system disease)

French

1 entries

kuru noun (central nervous system disease)

German

1 entries

Kuru noun (central nervous system disease)

Irish

1 entries

kuru noun (central nervous system disease)

Portuguese

1 entries

kuru noun (central nervous system disease)

Russian

1 entries

ку́ру noun (central nervous system disease)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

By the late 1950s, kuru was the leading cause of death among Fore women, and it had killed so many that men outnumbered women by three to one.

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