WordNet: kuru

a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned

• hypernym hermohäiriö, neurologinen häiriö, neurologinen sairaus

kuru

• (englanti) kuru (synonyymi)