noun
Meaning 1
A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, neurology, neuroscience, pathology, sciences
Examples
- The outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) have limited some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mad cow disease
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, transmissible spongiform encephalopathy