variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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: a fatal prion disease that is held to be a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease caused by the prion associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy and contracted by consuming infected beef or beef products —abbreviation vCJD

— called also variant CJD

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variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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Medical Definition of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

: a fatal prion disease that is held to be a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease caused by the prion associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy and contracted by consuming infected beef or beef products —abbreviation vCJD

— called also new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, variant CJD

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