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KURU
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("kuru" is a kind of...):
nervous disorder; neurological disease; neurological disorder (a disorder of the nervous system)
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