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deficit (iou) and prion diseases (medicine)


deficit (iou)



deficit noun. L18.
[French deficit, from Latin 3rd person sing. pres. indic. of deficere: see DEFICIENT.]
(The amount of) a deficiency, esp. of money; an excess of expenditure or liabilities over income or assets.
Comb.: deficit financing the financing of deficit spending; deficit spending Government spending, in excess of revenue, of funds raised by borrowing, not by taxation.

prion diseases (medicine)


prion diseases
Transmissible and genetic neurodegenerative diseases of humans and animals caused by prions. The diseases are usually characterised by vacuolation in the gray matter and result in ataxia, motor disturbances, dementia, and progression to a fatal outcome. They include creutzfeldt-jakob syndrome, gerstmann-straussler syndrome, kuru, scrapie, fatal familial insomnia, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (encephalopathy, bovine spongiform), transmissible mink encephalopathy, and chronic wasting disease of mule deer and elk. The literature has sometimes referred to these as unconventional slow virus diseases.