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 brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned
双语例句
1. And the kuru-kuru factory employs women to make bags, clothes, and stuffed dolls out of discarded items.
kuru- kuru工厂会雇佣女工用废弃物品制作包包、衣物或填充玩偶。
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2. Prions cause a number of fatal diseases such as mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep and kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans.
3. Then bhisma the valiant grandsire of the kuru dynasty roaring like a lion blew his conch shell very loudly for increasing duryodhana's cheerfulness.
然后彼斯玛,库茹王朝伟大英勇的祖父,响亮地吹起了他的螺号,就像狮子在怒吼,使杜尧哈那欢腾雀跃。
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4. Reuse is highly encouraged in Kamikatsu - they have a local kuru-kuru shop where residents can exchange used items with new things at no extra cost.
5. Simon Mead of the British prion research centre at University College London says the discovery of an "anti-kuru" gene is the most clear-cut evidence yet of human evolution in action.
6. Simon Mead of the British prion research centre at University College London says the discovery of an "anti-kuru" gene is the most clear-cut evidence yet of human evolution in action.