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bovine spongiform encephalopathy

/ˈbəʊ̯.vaɪ̯n ˈspʌn.d͡ʒɪ.fɔːm ɛn.sə.fəˈlɒ.pə.θɪ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.89 in modern English

Syllables
bovine spongi-for-m en-cephalopa-thy
IPA
/ˈbəʊ̯.vaɪ̯n ˈspʌn.d͡ʒɪ.fɔːm ɛn.sə.fəˈlɒ.pə.θɪ/
58
Scrabble Score
30
Letters
5
Syllables
18
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Regional Pronunciation

  • British English: /ˈbəʊ̯.vaɪ̯n ˈspʌn.d͡ʒɪ.fɔːm ɛn.sə.fəˈlɒ.pə.θɪ/

Usage

Inflected Forms

BSE (abbreviation)

Phrases

variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

Frequently Paired Words

variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

Synonyms

mad cow disease

Questions

How do you pronounce bovine spongiform encephalopathy?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbəʊ̯.vaɪ̯n ˈspʌn.d͡ʒɪ.fɔːm ɛn.sə.fəˈlɒ.pə.θɪ/.
What does bovine spongiform encephalopathy mean?
A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues.

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