Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

English Etymology en neurologists German Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt 1885 1964 = and en Alfons Maria Jakob = 1884 1931. Noun Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease - en disease neurology A rare, progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. It is a prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (e.g. corneal transplants, blood transfusions). en CJD initialism Derived terms en new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease Translations Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 克雅二氏病 Czech: cs Creutzfeldt-Jakobova nemoc f Dutch: nl ziekte van Creutzfeldt-Jakob f, nl creutzfeldt-jakobsyndroom n Esperanto: eo malsano de Creutzfeld-Jakob Finnish: fi Creutzfeldt–Jakobin tauti French: fr maladie de Creutzfeld-Jakob f German: de Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit f Greek: el νόσος Κρόιτσφελντ-Γιάκομπ f, el σπογγώδης εγκεφαλοπάθεια των βοοειδών f Japanese: ja クロイツフェルト・ヤコブ病 kuroitsuferuto-yakobubyō Norwegian: no Creutzfeldt-Jakobs sykdom c Polish: pl choroba Creutzfeldta-Jakoba f Portuguese: pt doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob f Spanish: es enfermedad de Creutzfeldt-Jakob f Swedish: sv Creutzfeldt-Jakobs sjukdom c