| 单词 | spongiform encephalopathy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspongiform encephalopathy spongiform encephalopathy n. Pathology any of various degenerative diseases of the central nervous system characterized by histological change in brain tissue, which assumes a sponge-like appearance due to the degeneration and loss of neurones, and the appearance of vacuoles; bovine spongiform encephalopathy n. at bovine adj. Additions). 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 1960 Brain 83 546 Some authors regard this condition now under review as a variant of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease but we consider that it is fundamentally different and propose now to refer to it as subacute spongiform encephalopathy or spongiform cerebral atrophy as suggested by Jacob et al. (1958). 1979 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. iii. 370 There are four examples of the chronic degenerative brain disease known as spongiform encephalopathy, two in man (kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) and two in animals (scrapie and transmissable mink encephalopathy). 1991 N.Y. Times 8 Oct. c12/5 In Britain,..an epidemic of spongiform encephalopathy in cows, known as mad cow disease, has held the nation in thrall for the past five years. < as lemmas |
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