“Jakob”

The following 3 entries include the term Jakob.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

noun

: a rare progressive fatal encephalopathy caused by a prion and marked by development of porous brain tissue, premature dementia in middle age, and gradual loss of muscular coordination

new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

noun

: variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease abbreviation nvCJD

variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

noun

: a fatal prion disease that is held to be a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease caused by the prion associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy and contracted by consuming infected beef or beef products abbreviation vCJD


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