bovine spongiform encephalopathy

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bovine spongiform encephalopathy (uncountable, abbreviation BSE)

  1. (pathology, neurology) A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues.
    Synonym: mad cow disease
    Hypernyms: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
    The outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) have limited some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords.

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