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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▸ 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.
Similar:
piastre,
piaster,
laughing sickness,
laughing death,
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,
scrapie,
bovine spongiform encephalopathy,
prionopathy,
prionosis,
mad cow disease,
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