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Definition: Kuru |
KuruNoun1. 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. 2. 100 kurus equal 1 lira. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Kuru" is a common misspelling or typo for: kudu. |
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Literature | Kuru A noted legendary hero of India, the contests of whose descendants form the subject of two Indian epics. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Kuru is a disease classifed as a Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) caused by prions. It was found among women and children in the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea and was thought to be spread by a form of ritual funerary cannibalism where the brains of deceased relatives were eaten.
Kuru was first studied by D. Carleton Gajdusek, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for his work with the disease. As with all prion diseases it is always fatal, with the duration of illness lasting 3 to 12 months from the diagnosis of the first symptoms to death.
- Kuru (In German)
In the Mahabharata, part of Indian and Hindu mythology, Kuru is the ancestor of the Kauravas and Pandavas. Kuru were a UK punk band during the late 1990s. Kuru is a municipality in Finland, see Kuru (Finland)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Kuru."
Synonyms: KuruSynonyms: piaster (n), piastre (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Kuru |
| English words defined with "kuru": asper. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Kuru" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (Kuru), Turkish (arid, dried, dry, drying, rate, sapless, scarious). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Baka ga tanku de yatte kuru (1964) Ahiru no uta ga kikoete kuru yo (1993) Haru kuru oni (1989) Fushigi monogatari: Hachi neko wa yoku asagata kaette kuru (1988) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [A child with kuru, a fatal nervous system disorder] / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Children with kuru, a fatal nervous system disorder] / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Vpadenie r. Araksa v r. Kuru u Petropavlovskago. [Mugan'skaia step']. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Vid na r. Kuru s gorki Likany. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Like other TSEs, kuru has a long incubation period and it may take years or even decades before an infected person shows symptoms. (references) | |
Kuru is a rare, degenerative, and fatal brain disorder that occurs primarily among the Fore natives in the highlands of New Guinea. (references) | ||
Kuru belongs to a class of infectious diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as prion diseases. (references) | ||
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| "Kuru" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Kuru" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
kuru | 56 |
kuru kuru kururin | 5 |
disease kuru | 4 |
döviz kuru | 4 |
fasulye kuru | 4 |
uttara kuru | 4 |
gida kuru | 2 |
kuru kuru kururin rom | 2 |
kuru kuru | 2 |
kuru temizleme | 2 |
dolar kuru | 2 |
akü kuru | 2 |
incir kuru | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "kuru"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | kuru. (various references) | |
Dutch | koeroe. (various references) | |
French | kuru. (various references) | |
German | Kuru. (various references) | |
Greek | kuru, κούρου. (various references) | |
Italian | kuru. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urukay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Kuru. (various references) | |
Spanish | kuru. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "kuru": kurus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "k-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: kurus. | |
+2 letters: krubut, kultur, ruckus. | |
+3 letters: bunraku, krubuts, kulturs, undrunk. | |
+4 letters: bunrakus, eurokous, outdrunk, ruckuses, truckful, trunkful, unpucker, unshrunk. | |
+5 letters: sunstruck, truckfuls, trunkfuls, trunksful, unluckier, unpuckers. | |
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