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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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, neurology, neuroscience, pathology, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: CJD
Antonyms: none provided
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: CJD, Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: brain disorder, encephalopathy, brain disease
Named after German neurologists Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885–1964) and Alfons Maria Jakob (1884–1931).
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
克雅二氏病
(Kè-Yǎ èrshì bìng)
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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Czech:
Creutzfeldt-Jakobova nemoc
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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Dutch:
ziekte van Creutzfeldt-Jakob
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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Dutch:
creutzfeldt-jakobsyndroom
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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Esperanto:
malsano de Creutzfeld-Jakob
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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French:
maladie de Creutzfeld-Jakob
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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German:
Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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Greek:
νόσος Κρόιτσφελντ-Γιάκομπ
(nósos Króitsfelnt-Giákomp)
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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Greek:
σπογγώδης εγκεφαλοπάθεια των βοοειδών
(spongódis egkefalopátheia ton vooeidón)
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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Japanese:
クロイツフェルト・ヤコブ病
(kuroitsuferuto-yakobubyō)
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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Norwegian:
Creutzfeldt-Jakobs sykdom
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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Polish:
choroba Creutzfeldta-Jakoba
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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Portuguese:
doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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Spanish:
enfermedad de Creutzfeldt-Jakob
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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Swedish:
Creutzfeldt-Jakobs sjukdom
— Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
