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SCRAPIE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("scrapie" is a kind of...):
animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)