Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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Etymology

Named after Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob.

Noun

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (uncountable) (abbreviation CJD)

1. (pathology, neurology) A rare, progressive, currently fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. A prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (corneal transplants, blood transfusions).

Translations

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Czech: Creutzfeldt-Jakobova nemoc (cs) f. French: maladie de Creutzfeld-Jakob (fr) f. Greek: νόσος Κρόιτσφελντ-Γιάκομπ (el) (nósos Króitsfelnt-Giákomp) f., σπογγώδης εγκεφαλοπάθεια των βοοειδών (el) (spongódis egkefalopátheia ton vooeidón) f.

Japanese: クロイツフェルト・ヤコブ病 (ja) (kuroitsuferuto-yakobubyō) Polish: choroba Creutzfeldta-Jakoba (pl) f. Spanish: enfermedad de Creutzfeldt-Jakob (es) f.