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Definition: Mad Cow Disease |
Mad Cow DiseaseNoun1. 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. |
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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) |
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Synonym: Mad Cow DiseaseSynonym: bovine spongiform encephalitis (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: bse (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
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Screenplays | Or mad cow disease. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
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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) | |
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| 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 |
mad cow disease | 1,568 |
mad cow disease symptom | 54 |
cause of mad cow disease | 15 |
mad cow disease in human | 11 |
information on mad cow disease | 10 |
article on mad cow disease | 8 |
info on mad cow disease | 4 |
mad cow disease creutzfeldt jakob disease in human | 3 |
mad cow disease creutzfeldt jakob syndrome | 2 |
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| 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), encefalopatÃa espongiforme bovina (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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). | |
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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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)
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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)M a d   C o w   D i s e a s e |
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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