vCJD

Noun

Meaning

vCJD (uncountable)

(medicine) variant CJD, a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

nvCJD human mad cow human bse human spongiform encephalopathy human mad cow disease

Examples

By April 2013, vCJD - the human form of the disease had killed 280 people (176 of them in Britain). Source: Internet

It is thought that humans can contract the disease by consuming material from animals infected with the bovine form of the disease. citation The only suspected cases to arise thus far have been vCJD with cases in the UK and Canada. Source: Internet

People with a biologic relative having been diagnosed with CJD or vCJD are unable to donate. Source: Internet

The exception to this is the more recently recognised 'variant' CJD (vCJD), which occurs in younger people. Source: Internet

This also differs from the 177 patients with vCJD, all of whom to date have been methionine homozygous (MM) genotype. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

VCD player VCFD VCH VCL VCM VCO