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1 scrapie -- rank: 1000
scrapie definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a fatal ...
2 Prusiner, Stanley (Ben) -- rank: 238
... Jakob disease (CJD), he later studied the related sheep disorder scrapie and reported isolation of its causative agent in 1982. Initially ...
3 prion -- rank: 238
... lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system Merriam Webster ...
4 mad cow disease -- rank: 238
... animal remains, incl. those of sheep with a similar disease, scrapie. Both diseases are caused by prions. Hundreds of thousands of ...
5 slow virus -- rank: 238
... period between infection and development of a degenerative disease (as scrapie or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)
6 bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- rank: 238
... of cattle affecting the nervous system, resembling or identical with scrapie of sheep and goats, and probably caused by a prion ...
7 Slow -- rank: 238
... host organism and has a long incubation period, such as scrapie or BSE. Derivatives: slowish adj. slowly adv. slowness n. Etymology ...
8 virino -- rank: 238
... a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists ...