kuru

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 114132583)
    is a type of: nervous disorder, neurological disease, neurological disorder - a disorder of the nervous system

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