kuru
英 ['ku:rʊ] 美 ['kʊru]

n.

苦鲁病，新几内亚震颤病；

英英释义

kuru[ 'ku:ru: ]

• n.
  • a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned
  • 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey

    同义词：piasterpiastre

权威例句

Pathology of Kuru
Pathology of Kuru.
Kuru in the 21st century-an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation periods
Experimental transmission of a Kuru-like syndrome to chimpanzees
Discussion on Kuru, Scrapie and the Experimental Kuru-Like Syndrome in Chimpanzees
Discussion on kuru, scrapie and the experimental kuru-like syndrome in chimpanzees.
Unconventional viruses and the origin and disappearance of kuru.
Transmission of chronic spongiform encephalopathy with kuru plaques from humans to small rodents.
Degenerative disease of the central nervous system in New Guinea; the endemic occurrence of kuru in the native population.
Apolipoprotein E immunoreactivity in cerebral amyloid deposits and neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease and kuru plaque am...