KURU

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("kuru" is a kind of...):

nervous disorder; neurological disease; neurological disorder (a disorder of the nervous system)

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