English Dictionary

bovine spongiform encephalopathy

noun

(medicine, neurology) A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects cattle.

意味（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.