variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

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Noun

variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, neurology, pathology) A fatal type of brain disease within the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy family.
    Synonyms: new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (former name), vCJD (initialism)

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