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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after German neurologists Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885–1964) and Alfons Maria Jakob (1884–1931).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) 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).

Forms

Deriveds

variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease · new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

Synonyms

CJD

Translations (16)

no Creutzfeldt-Jakobs sykdom (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · es enfermedad de Creutzfeldt-Jakob (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · el σπογγώδης εγκεφαλοπάθεια των βοοειδών (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · sv Creutzfeldt-Jakobs sjukdom (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · pl choroba Creutzfeldta-Jakoba (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · pt doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · el νόσος Κρόιτσφελντ-Γιάκομπ (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · nl creutzfeldt-jakobsyndroom (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · cmn 克雅二氏病 (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · fr maladie de Creutzfeld-Jakob (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · fi Creutzfeldt–Jakobin tauti (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · ja クロイツフェルト・ヤコブ病 (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · nl ziekte van Creutzfeldt-Jakob (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · cs Creutzfeldt-Jakobova nemoc (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · eo malsano de Creutzfeld-Jakob (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) · de Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease)