Word "KURU" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
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

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Fatal brain disease occuring in New Guinea, spread by cannibalism (4)
Disease of the nervous system
Brain disease (4)
Brain disease universal among West African people
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