scrapie

See also: Scrapie

English

Etymology

From scrape +‎ -ie, from the tendency of affected animals to scrape themselves against solid objects.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɹeɪpi/
• Rhymes: -eɪpi

Noun

scrapie (countable and uncountable, plural scrapies)

1. A degenerative prion disease of sheep and goats that attacks the central nervous system.
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 272:

     This incurable disease, called scrapie, became a large problem, often killing one ewe in ten.

Coordinate terms

• zombie deer disease
• mad cow disease

Translations

A degenerative prion disease

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 痒病 (yǎngbìng)

• Dutch: schuurziekte f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: scrapie (fi), skrapi (fi), lampaan kutkatauti
• French: tremblante du mouton (fr)
• Galician: teo (gl) m, rebullón m, tortón m
• German: Traberkrankheit f, Scrapie
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• Hebrew: סקרייפי m
• Icelandic: riða (is) f
• Japanese: スクレイピー (sukureipī)
• Portuguese: scrapie m or f
• Russian: скре́йпи (ru) (skréjpi), почесу́ха (ru) f (počesúxa)
• Slovene: praskavec m
• Spanish: prurito lumbar m

Anagrams

• epacris, ice spar, icespar, pie cars, raspice, spacier

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɾej.pi/

Noun

scrapie m or f (uncountable)

1. (Brazil) scrapie (degenerative disease of sheep and goats)