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Noun

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ‎(uncountable) (abbreviation CJD)

1. (pathology, 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).

Derived terms

• new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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