Usually means: Fatal neurological disease from cannibalism.
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  1. kuru: Merriam-Webster
  2. kuru: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kuru: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kuru: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Kuru, kuru: Wordnik
  7. kuru: Wiktionary
  8. kuru: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. kuru: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. kuru: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. kuru: Dictionary.com
  12. Kuru (Hindu mythology), Kuru (India), Kuru (archaeology), Kuru (disease), Kuru (kingdom), Kuru (mythology), Kuru: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. kuru: Rhymezone
  14. Kuru: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. kuru: FreeDictionary.org
  16. kuru: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. kuru: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. kuru: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. kuru: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. Kuru: Merck Manuals
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  9. Kuru: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
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  11. Kuru (disambiguation), kuru: Medical dictionary
  12. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  13. Kuru: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. kuru: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. kuru: Urban Dictionary

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  1. The Turkish Food and Beverage Page (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Kuru)

noun:  A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.
noun:  (Hinduism, historical) an ancient kingdom, mentioned in the Mahabharata.

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