bovine spongiform encephalopathy

== English == === Noun === bovine spongiform encephalopathy (uncountable, abbreviation BSE) (pathology, neurology) A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues. Synonym: mad cow disease Hypernyms: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, transmissible spongiform encephalopathy ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== ==== Further reading ==== bovine spongiform encephalopathy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia