bovine spongiform encephalopathy

English

Noun

bovine spongiform encephalopathy (uncountable) (abbreviated as BSE)

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

   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.

Synonyms

• mad cow disease
• variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Hypernyms

• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Translations

bovine spongiform encephalopathy

• Arabic: جُنُون اَلْبَقَر m (junūn al-baqar)
• Basque: behien entzefalpatia espongiforme, behi eroen gaitza
• Catalan: encefalopatia espongiforme bovina f
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: siáu-gû-pēⁿ

  Mandarin: 牛海绵状脑病 (zh) (niúhǎimiánzhuàngnǎobìng), 疯牛病 (zh) (fēngniúbìng)

• Czech: nemoc šílených krav f, bovinní spongiformní encefalopatie
• Danish: kogalskab c, bse c
• Dutch: dollekoeienziekte (nl) f, gekkekoeienziekte (nl) f, boviene spongiforme encefalopathie
• Esperanto: Bova Spongoforma Encefalopatio, malsano de bova freneziĝo (eo), bovofreneziĝo
• Finnish: naudan spongiforminen enkefalopatia, hullun lehmän tauti
• French: encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine (fr) f
• Galician: encefalopatía esponxiforme bovina, enfermidade das vacas tolas
• German: Bovine Spongiforme Enzephalopathie f, Rinderwahnsinn (de) m
• Greek: σπογγώδης εγκεφαλοπάθεια των βοοειδών f (spongódis egkefalopátheia ton vooeidón)
• Icelandic: kúariða f
• Indonesian: penyakit sapi gila
• Interlingua: Encephalopathia spongiforme bovin
• Irish: einceifealapaite spúinseach bhólachta f, galar na bó mire m (familiar)
• Italian: encefalopatia spongiforme bovina f
• Japanese: 牛海綿状脳症 (ja) (うしかいめんじょうのうしょう, ushi kaimenjō nōshō)
• Korean: 광우병 (ko) (gwang'ubyeong)
• Latin: encephalopathia spongiformis bovina
• Lithuanian: galvijų kempiškoji encefalopatija f, kempinligė f
• Malay: Penyakit lembu gila, penyakit lembu gila
• Malayalam: ബൊവൈൻ സ്പോഞ്ചിഫോം എൻസഫലോപതി (bovaiṉ spōñciphōṁ eṉsaphalōpati), ഭ്രാന്തിപ്പശുരോഗം (bhrāntippaśurōgaṁ)
• Norwegian: kugalskap
• Polish: gąbczasta encefalopatia bydła f, chorobą szalonych krów
• Portuguese: encefalopatia espongiforme bovina f
• Romanian: encefalopatie spongiformă bovină f
• Russian: коро́вье бе́шенство (ru) n (koróvʹje béšenstvo), губчатая энцефалопатия крупного рогатого скота f (gubčataja encefalopatija krupnovo rogatovo skota)
• Slovak: choroba šialených kráv f
• Spanish: encefalopatía espongiforme bovina f
• Welsh: Enseffalopathi Sbyngffurf Buchol, Ymenyddglwyf Sbungfurff Gwartheg, Clefyd y Gwartheg Gwallgof