kuru   (TTS Sound)

The kuru has 1 Senses.

• kuru
• 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
• 中枢神経の進行性疾患で、運動機能の協調が退化し麻痺状態に陥り、発症後1年以内で死亡する