bovine spongiform encephalopathy

English

Noun

bovine spongiform encephalopathy (uncountable) (abbreviated as BSE)

(pathology, neurology) A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues.
The outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) have limited some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords.

Synonyms

mad cow disease
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Hypernyms

Translations

bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Arabic: جُنُون اَلْبَقَر m (junūn al-baqar)
Basque: behien entzefalpatia espongiforme, behi eroen gaitza
Catalan: encefalopatia espongiforme bovina f
Chinese:
Hokkien: siáu-gû-pēⁿ

Mandarin: 牛海绵状脑病 (zh) (niúhǎimiánzhuàngnǎobìng), 疯牛病 (zh) (fēngniúbìng)
Czech: nemoc šílených krav f, bovinní spongiformní encefalopatie
Danish: kogalskab c, bse c
Dutch: dollekoeienziekte (nl) f, gekkekoeienziekte (nl) f, boviene spongiforme encefalopathie
Esperanto: Bova Spongoforma Encefalopatio, malsano de bova freneziĝo (eo), bovofreneziĝo
Finnish: naudan spongiforminen enkefalopatia, hullun lehmän tauti
French: encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine (fr) f
Galician: encefalopatía esponxiforme bovina, enfermidade das vacas tolas
German: Bovine Spongiforme Enzephalopathie f, Rinderwahnsinn (de) m
Greek: σπογγώδης εγκεφαλοπάθεια των βοοειδών f (spongódis egkefalopátheia ton vooeidón)
Icelandic: kúariða f
Indonesian: penyakit sapi gila
Interlingua: Encephalopathia spongiforme bovin
Irish: einceifealapaite spúinseach bhólachta f, galar na bó mire m (familiar)
Italian: encefalopatia spongiforme bovina f
Japanese: 牛海綿状脳症 (ja) (うしかいめんじょうのうしょう, ushi kaimenjō nōshō)
Korean: 광우병 (ko) (gwang'ubyeong)
Latin: encephalopathia spongiformis bovina
Lithuanian: galvijų kempiškoji encefalopatija f, kempinligė f
Malay: Penyakit lembu gila, penyakit lembu gila
Malayalam: ബൊവൈൻ സ്പോഞ്ചിഫോം എൻസഫലോപതി (bovaiṉ spōñciphōṁ eṉsaphalōpati), ഭ്രാന്തിപ്പശുരോഗം (bhrāntippaśurōgaṁ)
Norwegian: kugalskap
Polish: gąbczasta encefalopatia bydła f, chorobą szalonych krów
Portuguese: encefalopatia espongiforme bovina f
Romanian: encefalopatie spongiformă bovină f
Russian: коро́вье бе́шенство (ru) n (koróvʹje béšenstvo), губчатая энцефалопатия крупного рогатого скота f (gubčataja encefalopatija krupnovo rogatovo skota)
Slovak: choroba šialených kráv f
Spanish: encefalopatía espongiforme bovina f
Welsh: Enseffalopathi Sbyngffurf Buchol, Ymenyddglwyf Sbungfurff Gwartheg, Clefyd y Gwartheg Gwallgof

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