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Disease of sheep
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scrapie
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Most Western nations tolerate Salmonella in chickens and scrapie in sheep, but this must change. ▪ Recent research has shown that the scrapie agent can live for several years when buried in soil.
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Scrapie is a fatal, degenerative disease that affects the nervous systems of sheep and goats . It is one of several transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), which are related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or "mad cow disease") and chronic ...
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n. a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A degenerative prion disease of sheep and goats that attacks the central nervous system.
Usage examples of scrapie.
This world left him as addled as a sheep with scrapie, and he would begin to question his sanity unless he were quit of it soon.
We found entries about all kinds of human prion diseases-kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Gerstmann-Straussler syndrome-and the veterinary syndromes, scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, but it's all old, old stuff.
Finally, in 1982, Prusiner proposed that the infectious agent for scrapie and related diseases consists exclusively of protein.
Soon afterwards, Prusiner and his co-workers discovered a protein that seemed to be present always in the infectious agent for scrapie.