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scrapie

scrapie

See also: Scrapie

English

Noun

scrapie ‎(countable and uncountable, plural scrapies)

A degenerative prion disease of sheep and goats that attacks the central nervous system.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 272:
  This incurable disease, called scrapie, became a large problem, often killing one ewe in ten.

Translations

A degenerative prion disease

Chinese:
Mandarin: 痒病 ‎(yǎngbìng)
Dutch: schuurziekte f
Finnish: scrapie (fi), skrapi (fi)
French: tremblante du mouton (fr)
German: Traberkrankheit f, Scrapie

Hebrew: סקרייפי m
Icelandic: riða (is)
Japanese: スクレイピー ‎(sukureipī)
Portuguese: scrapie m f
Russian: скре́йпи (ru) ‎(skréjpi), почесу́ха (ru) f ‎(počesúxa)
Spanish: prurito lumbar m

Anagrams

spacier

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈskɾej.pi/

Noun

scrapie m or f (in variation) (uncountable)

scrapie (degenerative disease of sheep and goats)