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Meaning of bovine spongiform encephalopathy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

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

uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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