kuru
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.
Đồng nghĩa: laughing death, laughing sickness, Kuru disease
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Đồng nghĩa
laughing deathlaughing sicknessKuru disease
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Nguồn gốc từ
From kúru. Perhaps eventually from Proto-Gorokan *kút(V) (“dangling, shaking”) if cognate with the reduplicated element of gúli gúli hu-.