CJD

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A form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease — A rare, progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. It is a prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (e.g. corneal transplants, blood transfusions).

Similar
Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseJakob-Creutzfeldt disease
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Meanings

nounCJD (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounrare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control

Similar
Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseJakob-Creutzfeldt disease
Broader
brain disorderencephalopathybrain disease
Also see
creutzfeldt-jakob disease

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

German CJK
  • CJKCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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