JAKOB-CREUTZFELDT DISEASE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus
   • characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control
   Synonym(s)
   • CJD (what does CJD mean?)
   • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (what does Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • brain disorder (what does brain disorder mean?)
   • encephalopathy (what does encephalopathy mean?)
   • brain disease (what does brain disease mean?)