Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

English

Etymology

Named after German neurologists Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885–1964) and Alfons Maria Jakob (1884–1931).

Noun

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (uncountable)

1. (pathology, neurology) 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).

   Synonym: (abbreviation) CJD

Derived terms

• new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
• variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

Translations

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克雅二氏病 (Kè-Yǎ èrshì bìng)

• Czech: Creutzfeldt-Jakobova nemoc f
• Dutch: ziekte van Creutzfeldt-Jakob (nl) f
• Esperanto: malsano de Creutzfeld-Jakob
• French: maladie de Creutzfeld-Jakob f
• German: Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit (de) f
• Greek: νόσος Κρόιτσφελντ-Γιάκομπ f (nósos Króitsfelnt-Giákomp), σπογγώδης εγκεφαλοπάθεια των βοοειδών f (spongódis egkefalopátheia ton vooeidón)
• Japanese: クロイツフェルト・ヤコブ病 (kuroitsuferuto-yakobubyō)
• Norwegian: Creutzfeldt-Jakobs sykdom c
• Polish: choroba Creutzfeldta-Jakoba (pl) f
• Portuguese: doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob (pt) f
• Spanish: enfermedad de Creutzfeldt-Jakob f
• Swedish: Creutzfeldt-Jakobs sjukdom (sv) c