kuru

n. [医] 苦鲁病, 新几内亚震颤病

发音

AU /ˈkʉː.ɹʉː/
其它
UK /ˈkʊ.ɹuː/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

    库鲁病

    不可数

相关短语

Kuru disease

词源

From Fore kúru (literally “trembling, shivering”). Perhaps eventually from Proto-Gorokan *kút(V) (“dangling, shaking”) if cognate with the reduplicated element of Yagaria gúli gúli hu- (“be loose, rattle”).

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