CWD
Noun
Meaning
(medicine, uncountable) Initialism of chronic wasting disease.
(computing, countable) Initialism of current working directory.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgSynonyms
Examples
All CWD sampling in Minnesota this year is voluntary.
“Currently, the La Sal Mountains have one of the highest concentrations of CWD in Utah, located right in Moab’s backyard.
Most states closely regulate the importation of deer, elk, moose and caribou carcasses because transporting infected carcasses is a known risk for introducing CWD to new areas.
Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, first showed up in Utah in 2002 when a buck mule deer killed during the rifle hunt near Vernal tested positive.
Additional information about CWD can be found online at https://tpwd.
An unlucky 13 new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) were confirmed at a captive white-tail deer breeding facility in Medina County on June 29 – just a year after the fatal disease first appeared in the Texas white-tail population.