mad cow disease

English

Noun

mad cow disease (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, veterinary, pathology) Synonym of bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Coordinate terms

• zombie deer disease
• scrapie

Translations

informal: bovine spongiform encephalopathy

• Arabic: جُنُون البَقَر m (junūn al-baqar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瘋牛病／疯牛病 (zh) (fēngniúbìng) (Mainland China), 狂牛症 (kuángniúzhèng) (Taiwan), 狂牛病 (zh) (kuángniúbìng) (Taiwan), ^{(please verify)} 牛海绵状脑病 (zh) (niú hǎimián zhuàng nǎo bìng)

• Czech: nemoc šílených krav f
• Dutch: gekkekoeienziekte (nl) f (Netherlands), dollekoeienziekte (nl) f (Belgium)
• Estonian: hullulehmatõbi
• Faroese: neytaøði f
• Finnish: hullun lehmän tauti
• French: maladie de la vache folle f, vache folle (fr) f
• German: Rinderwahn (de) m, Rinderwahnsinn (de) m
• Hebrew: מחלת הפרה המשוגעת f
• Hungarian: kergemarhakór (hu)
• Icelandic: kúariða f
• Japanese: 狂牛病 (ja) (きょうぎゅうびょう, kyōgyūbyō)
• Khmer: ជំងឺគោឆ្កួត (cumŋɨɨ kou ckuət)
• Korean: 광우병(狂牛病) (ko) (gwang'ubyeong)
• Polish: choroba szalonych krów (pl) f
• Portuguese: doença da vaca louca (pt) f
• Russian: коро́вье бе́шенство (ru) n (koróvʹje béšenstvo)
• Slovak: choroba šialených kráv
• Spanish: enfermedad de las vacas locas f, vaca loca f
• Swedish: galna ko-sjukan, galna kosjukan
• Turkish: deli dana hastalığı (tr)