| 释义 |
kuru|ˈkʊruː|
[Native name.]
A progressive and fatal degenerative disease of the brain which is endemic in an area of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea and is characterized by ataxia and tremor.
1957New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 14 Nov. 974/1 The current report of our preliminary findings is based on the careful study of 114 cases of this new disease, which the local populace know by the name of ‘kuru’. 1958Times 9 Jan. 10/1 It is estimated that about 1 per cent. of the population is affected with kuru. 1965Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 10 Oct. 2 Outside the Fore region only the adjacent areas where inter-marriage has certainly occurred show cases of kuru. 1967New Scientist 26 Jan. 190/2 A brain disease known as kuru..appeared about 45 years ago in a tribe of cannibals in New Guinea and is now the tribe's most common cause of death. 1971Nature 30 Apr. 589/1 Kuru..has so far been transmitted from eleven different human patients to eighteen chimpanzees with incubation periods of 14–39 months after intracerebral inoculation. 1973Sci. Amer. Jan. 126/3 The prototype of the slow virus [disease] is probably kuru, that remarkable affliction of the people of the South Fore River of New Guinea, apparently spread by ritual cannibalism of the brain tissue. |