English Explanatory Dictionary

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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).

Word forms

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

Etymology

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

Synonyms

CJD

Derived words

new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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