Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

English

Etymology

Named after Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob.

Noun

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (uncountable) (abbreviation CJD)

(medicine, 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).

Derived terms

new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Translations

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Czech: Creutzfeldt-Jakobova nemoc f
Esperanto: malsano de Creutzfeld-Jakob
French: maladie de Creutzfeld-Jakob f
German: Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit (de) f
Greek: νόσος Κρόιτσφελντ-Γιάκομπ f (nósos Króitsfelnt-Giákomp), σπογγώδης εγκεφαλοπάθεια των βοοειδών f (spongódis egkefalopátheia ton vooeidón)
Japanese: クロイツフェルト・ヤコブ病 (kuroitsuferuto-yakobubyō)

Norwegian: Creutzfeldt-Jakobs sykdom c
Polish: choroba Creutzfeldta-Jakoba (pl) f
Portuguese: doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob f
Spanish: enfermedad de Creutzfeldt-Jakob f
Swedish: Creutzfeldt-Jakobs sjukdom (sv) c

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