Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

English

Etymology

Named after Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob.

Noun

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (uncountable) (abbreviation CJD)

1. (medicine, neurology) A rare, progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. It is a prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (e.g. corneal transplants, blood transfusions).

Derived terms

• new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Translations

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Czech: Creutzfeldt-Jakobova nemoc f Esperanto: malsano de Creutzfeld-Jakob French: maladie de Creutzfeld-Jakob f German: Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit (de) f Greek: νόσος Κρόιτσφελντ-Γιάκομπ f (nósos Króitsfelnt-Giákomp), σπογγώδης εγκεφαλοπάθεια των βοοειδών f (spongódis egkefalopátheia ton vooeidón) Japanese: クロイツフェルト・ヤコブ病 (kuroitsuferuto-yakobubyō)

Norwegian: Creutzfeldt-Jakobs sykdom c Polish: choroba Creutzfeldta-Jakoba (pl) f Portuguese: doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob f Spanish: enfermedad de Creutzfeldt-Jakob f Swedish: Creutzfeldt-Jakobs sjukdom (sv) c