kuru

n. 苦魯病、新幾內亞震顫病

學術名詞

• 庫路：外國地名
• 克魯病：實驗動物及比較醫學

英文釋義

1. 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