bovine spongiform encephalopathy

bovine spongiform encephalopathy

English

Noun

bovine spongiform encephalopathy (uncountable) (abbreviated as BSE)

1. (medicine, 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

• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Translations

bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Arabic: جُنُون اَلْبَقَر‎ m (junūn al-baqar) Basque: behien entzefalpatia espongiforme, behi eroen gaitza Chinese: Mandarin: 牛海绵状脑病 (zh) (niúhǎimiánzhuàngnǎobìng), 疯牛病 (zh) (fēngniúbìng) Min Nan: siáu-gû-pēⁿ 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, 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 (うしかいめんじょうのうしょう, ushi kaimenjō nōshō) Korean: 광우병 (ko) (gwang-u-byeong) Latin: encephalopathia spongiformis bovina Lithuanian: galvijų kempiškoji encefalopatija f, kempinligė f Malay: Penyakit lembu gila, penyakit lembu gila Malayalam: ബൊവൈൻ സ്പോഞ്ചിഫോം എൻസഫലോപതി (bovain spōñciphōṃ ensaphalōpati), ഭ്രാന്തിപ്പശുരോഗം (bhrāntippaśurōgaṃ) 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), гу́бчатая энцефалопа́тия кру́пного рога́того скота́ f (gúbčataja encefalopátija krúpnovo rogátovo skotá) Slovak: choroba šialených kráv f Spanish: encefalopatía espongiforme bovina f Welsh: Enseffalopathi Sbyngffurf Buchol, Ymenyddglwyf Sbungfurff Gwartheg, Clefyd y Gwartheg Gwallgof