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Noun Concept
Categories: Health disasters, Articles with short description, Health disasters in the United Kingdom, Foodborne illnesses, Food safety in the European Union
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bovine spongiform encephalitis  BSE  mad cow disease  bovine spongiform encephalopathy  bovine spongiform enecelophalopathy
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A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitation WordNet 3.0
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A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitation WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, is an incurable and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Wikipedia
Neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Bovine counterpart to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Wikidata
Cattle disease caused by proteinaceous infectious particles. OmegaWiki
A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues. Wiktionary
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Wiktionary (translation)
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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. Wiktionary
IS A
animal disease
neurodegeneration
transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
bovine disease
HEALTH SPECIALTY
neurology
veterinary medicine
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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bovine spongiform encephalitis, BSE, mad cow disease
Wikipedia
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bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Wikidata
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bovine sponginess encephalitic
Wiktionary
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bovine spongiform encephalopathy
OmegaWiki
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bovine spongiform enecelophalopathy, mad cow disease
Wikipedia Redirections
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bovine spongiform encephalitis, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform Encephelopathy, Bovine transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, BSE Inquiry, Encephalopathy, bovine spongiform, Mad-cow, mad-cow disease, Mad cheese disease, mad cow, mad cow disease, Mad cow disease 2004, Madcow
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE, Encephalitis, Bovine Spongiform, Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform, Mad Cow Disease, Mad Cow Diseases, Spongiform Encephalopathy, Bovine, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, BSEs (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)

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