Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English

Syllables: trans-mis-si-ble spongi-for-m en-cephalopa-thy
IPA

64

Scrabble Score

37

Letters

8

Syllables

17

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any fatal, incurable degenerative disease of the brain transmitted by prions.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (plural)

Synonyms

prion disease TSE

Questions

What does transmissible spongiform encephalopathy mean?: Any fatal, incurable degenerative disease of the brain transmitted by prions.

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