transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

noun

1. any of several encephalopathies, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, and kuru, characterized by spongy degeneration of brain tissue and believed to result from the ingestion of a toxic protein or virus.

transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

noun

1. the full name for TSE

Example Sentences

CWD is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, another of which did jump species: mad cow disease.

From Washington Post

It is among a class of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, or TSE.

From New York Times

Last July four of the animals developed transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a class of diseases that includes mad cow.

From Time Magazine Archive