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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease noun

  • (disease, neurology) 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).
 creutzfeldt-jakobsyndroom, ziekte van Creutzfeldt-Jakob
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