Mad Cow Disease

  

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Mad Cow Disease

Definition: Mad Cow Disease

Mad Cow Disease

Noun

1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Mad Cow Disease

DomainDefinitions

Agriculture

The common term used for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). (references)

Food & Agriculture

A disease apparently restricted to Friesian-Holstein cattle, involving the central nervous system and characterized by behavioural changes and impaired gait. The cause is unknown and the disease was unrecorded prior to scattered outbreaks in the UK in 1987. The affected animals show increasing nervousness and hesitancy, clumsy gait, particularly affecting the hind legs, and intermittent trotting. Collapse and death invariably follow. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Mad Cow Disease

Synonym: bovine spongiform encephalitis (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: bse (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology).

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Modern Usage: Mad Cow Disease

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Or mad cow disease. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mad Cow Disease

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy B.S.E: Index of New Information and Guide-Book for Reference and Research (reference)

  • The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mad Cow Disease

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Health

The prion particles associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, also known as mad cow disease) do not have nucleic acid at all, and so they are not inactivated by irradiation, except at extremely high doses. (references)

Other TSEs include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, fatal familial insomnia in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle (also known as mad cow disease), scrapie in sheep and goats, and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk. "Prion" is the name given to an abnormal form of protein that appears to be able to cause more and more of its normal form to become malformed, eventually leading to deposits in cells of the central nervous system, and eventually killing these cells. (references)

Economic History

Switzerland

BSE, the mad cow disease, has triggered a wave of resesarch and the procurement of relevant equipment. (references)

Kuwait

India and Ireland dominated the frozen beef market, while France and the Netherlands were major suppliers of chilled beef until the government of Kuwait banned the importation of beef from the European Union as a result of mad cow disease. (references)

Egypt

Ireland, Germany, France and the Netherlands were the main suppliers of imported live animals, carcass and boxed beef until imports were banned due to foot and mouth disease in Europe, following earlier problems with mad cow disease (BSE) in Europe. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mad Cow Disease

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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1,568

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54

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15

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11

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10

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8

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3

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2
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Modern Translations: Mad Cow Disease

Language Translations for "mad cow disease"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

bovin spongiform encephalopati (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gekke-koeienziekte (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness), BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness), bovine spongiforme encefalopathie (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness). (various references)

   

French

  

maladie des vaches folles (cow madness), maladie de la vache folle (cow madness), ESB (cow madness), encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine (cow madness), encéphalite spongiforme bovine (cow madness), encéphalite spongieuse bovine (cow madness). (various references)

   

German

  

Spongiforme Rinderenzephalopathie (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness), Kuhwahnsinnskrankheit (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness), BSE (Bourquin-Sherman unit, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σπογγώδης εγκεφαλοπάθεια βοοειδών (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness), ΣΕÎ' (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness). (various references)

   

Italian

  

follia bovina (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness), encefalopatia spongiforme bovina (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness), BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

admay owcay iseaseday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

encefalopatia espongiforme bovina (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness), EEB (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness), doença das "vacas loucas". (various references)

   

Spanish

  

enfermedad de las vacas locas (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness), encefalopatía espongiforme bovina (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Mad Cow Disease

Misspellings

"Mad Cow Disease" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mad cow desease. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Mad Cow Disease

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-d-e-e-i-m-o-s-s-w"

-3 letters: camisadoes.

-4 letters: academies, camisades, camisados, sodamides.

-5 letters: academes, acidoses, amesaces, amidases, caddises, camisade, camisado, comedies, dadaisms, desmoids, dioceses, discased, diseased, miscoded, miscodes, misdeeds, sesamoid, sodamide, somewise.

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Alternative Orthography: Mad Cow Disease


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 64      43 6F 77      44 69 73 65 61 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01000011 01101111 01110111 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#100 &#32 &#67 &#111 &#119 &#32 &#68 &#105 &#115 &#101 &#97 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0064      0043 006F 0077      0044 0069 0073 0065 0061 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4767702378189238758571678571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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