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Noun Concept
Categories: All articles containing potentially dated statements, long volume value, Rare infectious diseases, Dementia, Neurodegenerative disorders
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease  CJD  Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease  Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease  Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control WordNet 3.0
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Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, also known as subacute spongiform encephalopathy or neurocognitive disorder due to prion disease, is a fatal degenerative brain disorder. Wikipedia
Rare disease of the brain caused by prions Wikipedia Disambiguation
A degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by the accumulation of prions. OmegaWiki
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). Wiktionary
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Wiktionary (translation)
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet