kuru是什么意思？

kuru

英['ku:rʊ] 美['kʊru]

• n. 苦鲁病，新几内亚震颤病；

例句

• Hadlow noticed that the vacuoles in Gajdusek's kuru brains resembled those he'd seen in sheep. 哈德劳发现,在加达塞克氏库鲁病脑中的空泡与他在羊中所见的空泡相像.
• By 1965 they had shown that kuru was transmissible. 到1965年,这些动物已显示出库鲁病具有传染性.
• The Fore knew kuru as a curse cast by sorcerers. 弗尔族人认为,库鲁是由男巫发出的诅咒.

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. 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 bra
  2. 100 kurus equal 1 lira

行业词典

• 医学： 库鲁病，新几内亚震颤病：一种慢性进行性、终于致命的神经疾病，其特征是潜伏期长并可传染给低于人类的灵长类。该病仅在新几内亚福尔(Fore)族及相邻的人群中发现，据认为与同类相食(cannibalism)有关。主要症状有躯干和肢体共济失调，战栗样震颤和构语障碍，也可有斜视和锥体外症状。病理学检查脑呈海绵状改变：神经元丧失，有星形神经胶质病(astrogliosis)和海绵状脑，大约2／3病例也出现淀粉样斑块；