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bovine spongiform encephalopathy(medicine)
bovine spongiform encephalitis(medicine)
Beale(medicine)
Beale's cell(medicine)
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Spongiform(medicine)
spongiform encephalopathy(medicine)
spongiform encephalopathies(medicine)

bovine spongiform encephalopathy (medicine) and Beale (medicine)


bovine spongiform encephalopathy (medicine)


bovine spongiform encephalopathy


A new disease of cattle, first reported in 1986 in Great Britain, characterised clinically by apprehensive behaviour, hyperesthesia, and ataxia and histopathologically by spongiform changes in the gray-matter neuropil of the brain stem; it is thought to be caused by an agent, possibly a prion, similar to that observed as the cause of scrapie.

Synonym: mad cow disease.


Beale (medicine)


Beale
Lionel S., British physician, 1828-1906.

See: Beale's cell.