scrapie

scrapie
A communicable spongiform encephalopathy of the central nervous system of sheep and goats caused by a prion and characterized by a very long incubation period followed by pruritus, abnormalities of gait, and invariably death; it resembles Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and kuru in humans. [from scraping by affected animals against objects to relieve itching]

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scra·pie 'skrā-pē n a usu. fatal spongiform encephalopathy esp. of sheep that is caused by a prion and is characterized by twitching, excitability, intense itching, excessive thirst, emaciation, weakness, and finally paralysis

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scra·pie (skraґpe) the first of the prion diseases to be recognized, occurring in sheep and goats and characterized by severe pruritus, muscular incoordination, and increasing debility, ending in death.

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  • scrapie — [skrā′pē] n. a fatal, degenerative nervous disease of sheep and goats …   English World dictionary

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  • scrapie — noun Etymology: 1scrape Date: 1910 a usually fatal spongiform encephalopathy especially of sheep that is caused by a prion and is characterized by twitching, intense itching, excessive thirst, emaciation, weakness, and finally paralysis …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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