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creutzfeldt-jakob disease

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English

Syllables
creutzfeldt--jakob dis-ease
IPA
52
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
4
Syllables
16
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Etymology

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

Usage

Inflected Forms

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (canonical)

Phrases

new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

Synonyms

CJD jakob-creutzfeldt disease

Questions

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).
Where does creutzfeldt-jakob disease come from?
Named after German neurologists Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885–1964) and Alfons Maria Jakob (1884–1931).

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