Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
noun
Creutz·feldt-Ja·kob disease
ˈkrȯits-ˌfelt-ˈyä-(ˌ)kōb- 
variants
or less commonly Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
: a rare progressive fatal encephalopathy caused by a prion and marked by development of porous brain tissue, premature dementia in middle age, and gradual loss of muscular coordination
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Jones battled Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for nearly three years, according to Illinois.
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Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
She was drawn to the topic after a neighbor and friend fell ill with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and died within weeks.
—Christie Wilcox, science.org, 27 Dec. 2024
These include mad cow disease, which affects mostly cattle, scrapie, which affects sheep, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which kills about 350 Americans a year ‒ most within months of their first symptom.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
In people, the disease is fatal and called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
Some of the 1,848 patients who received cadaver hormone developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare but always fatal brain disorder caused by a type of prion known as PrP-amyloid plaques.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 1 Feb. 2024
The treatment approach was discontinued after cases of a rare brain disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were found to be associated with the administration of contaminated human growth hormone from cadavers.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
Doctors suspected Mike could have suffered from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disorder in which brain proteins are abnormally folded.
—Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
Odd Autopsy Three years ago, Collinge and colleagues found a disturbing collection of clumps in the brains of eight patients who had died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or CJD, a fatal brain disorder.
—Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2018
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Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
She was drawn to the topic after a neighbor and friend fell ill with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and died within weeks.
—Christie Wilcox, science.org, 27 Dec. 2024
These include mad cow disease, which affects mostly cattle, scrapie, which affects sheep, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which kills about 350 Americans a year ‒ most within months of their first symptom.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
In people, the disease is fatal and called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
Some of the 1,848 patients who received cadaver hormone developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare but always fatal brain disorder caused by a type of prion known as PrP-amyloid plaques.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 1 Feb. 2024
The treatment approach was discontinued after cases of a rare brain disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were found to be associated with the administration of contaminated human growth hormone from cadavers.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
Doctors suspected Mike could have suffered from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disorder in which brain proteins are abnormally folded.
—Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
Odd Autopsy Three years ago, Collinge and colleagues found a disturbing collection of clumps in the brains of eight patients who had died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or CJD, a fatal brain disorder.
—Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2018
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
noun
Creutz·feldt-Ja·kob disease
variants
also Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
: a rare progressive fatal prion disease marked by the development of porous brain tissue, premature dementia in middle age, and gradual loss of muscular coordination
—abbreviation CJD
called also Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease
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