mad cow

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Определение mad cow в Английский Язык Турецкий язык словарь: Deli dana hastalığı; deli dana
mad-cow disease: Deli dana hastalığı

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Определение mad cow в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: Containing prions that carry bovine spongiform encephalopathy. BSE positive. (Mad cow meat / Mad cow milk); Of or pertaining to bovine spongiform encephalopathy. (A mad cow case); Mad cow disease; bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Prions that carry this disease; A cow afflicted with mad cow disease
mad cow disease: bovine spongiform encephalopathy
mad cow disease: Mad cow disease is a disease which affects the nervous system of cattle and causes death. = BSE. BSE. or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) Fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include behavioral changes (e.g., agitation), gradual loss of coordination and locomotive function, and, in advanced stages, weight loss, fine muscular contractions, and abnormal gait. Brain tissue becomes pitted with holes and spongy. Death usually follows within a year. The disease is similar to the neurodegenerative disease of sheep called scrapie. No treatment is known. A BSE epidemic in Britain that began in the mid-1980s is believed to have been caused by the use of cattle feed containing supplements made from ruminant carcasses and trimmings. Hundreds of thousands of infected cattle were slaughtered and the use of animal-derived protein supplements ended. The cause of both BSE and scrapie is attributed to an infectious aberrant protein called a prion. The unusual occurrence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, another prion-related illness, in young people beginning in the mid-1990s may be linked to eating meat from cattle with BSE
mad cow disease: (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy) fatal disease affecting the nervous system in cattle
mad cow disease: bovine spongiform encephalitis: a fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitation
mad-cow disease: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad-cow disease, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which infects by a mechanism that surprised biologists upon its discovery in the late 20th century