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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (iou)



Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease noun phr. L20.
[from H. G. Creuzfeldt (1885-1964) + A. M. Jakob (1884-1931), German neurologists.]
A transmissible, usu. fatal, disease of the middle-aged and elderly in which there is degeneration of nerve cells in the brain, causing mental, physical, and sensory disturbances such as dementia and seizures. (Abbreviation CJD.)
(new) variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease a similar disease which may affect younger people and is believed to be causally related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE); abbreviation nvCJD, vCJD.