| 单词 | laughing death |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaughing death laughing death n. = kuru n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > other brain disorders brain damage1864 mind-blindness1888 satellitosis1906 syringobulbia1908 Alzheimer's disease1911 kernicterus1912 pseudotumour1914 brain death1928 punch-drunk1928 Sturge–Weber syndrome1935 Alzheimer1938 Creutzfeldt–Jakob1939 Alzheimer1940 Schilder's disease1940 hypsarrhythmia1952 kuru1957 laughing death1957 Minamata disease1957 myelinolysis1959 spongiform encephalopathy1960 CJD1975 old-timer's disease1983 mad —— disease1990 1957 West Australian (Perth) 8 Oct. 7/5 Heredity is believed to be the cause of the laughing death disease which is sweeping through the young people of the..eastern highlands of New Guinea. 1957 Commonw. Austral. Parl. Deb. H.R. 22nd Parl. 2nd Sess. XVI. 1108/2 Has the Minister for Territories seen recent reports indicating that a disease known as the ‘laughing death’..has been prevalent amongst natives of certain parts of New Guinea? 1995 Sci. Amer. Jan. 31/1 Kuru has been seen only among the Fore highlanders of Papua New Guinea. They call it the ‘laughing death’. 2006 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 8 Oct. 9/1 Fatal familial insomnia is a so-called prion disease, a bizarre genus of ailments that includes kuru, or ‘laughing death’, which tribe members in Papua New Guinea contracted through the practice of cannibalizing their dead relatives. < as lemmas |
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