cjd
IPA: sˈidʒd
Root Word: CJD
noun
- (pathology, neurology) Initialism of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. [(pathology, neurology) A rare, progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. It is a prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (e.g. corneal transplants, blood transfusions).]
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Examples of "cjd" in Sentences
- CJD was removed for not being notable.
- CJD and BSE are more or less identical diseases.
- Ten to fifteen percent of CJD cases are inherited.
- Clinical testing for CJD has always been an issue.
- CJD is a TCE, so this should be edited to reflect that.
- I think it would be immensely speculative to attribute this increase to CJD.
- Read the wikipedia article on CJD, then provide a reference for this statement.