transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

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transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (countable and uncountable, plural transmissible spongiform encephalopathies)

  1. (pathology, neurology) Any fatal, incurable degenerative disease of the brain transmitted by prions.
    Synonyms: prion disease, TSE (initialism)
    Hyponym: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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