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Meaning of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

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A rare, progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. It is a prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (e.g. corneal transplants, blood transfusions).

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B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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