bovine spongiform encephalopathy
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bovine spongiform encephalopathy (uncountable) (abbreviated as BSE)
- (pathology, neurology) A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues.
- The outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) have limited some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords.
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bovine spongiform encephalopathy