kuru

/'ku:ru/

📖 中文释义

  1. n. [医] 苦鲁病, 新几内亚震颤病
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
  1. n 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