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June 19, 2013

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Glossary of Terms

The following are health and medical definitions of terms that appear in the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease article.

Abnormal: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Acquired: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Acyclovir: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Alzheimer's disease: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Amino acids: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Antiviral: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Autopsy: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Bacteria: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Biochemical: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Biopsy: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Bladder: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Blind: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Blindness: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Bovine: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Brain: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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Brain biopsy: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Catheter: See the definition from MedTerms.com

CDC: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Cerebrospinal fluid: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Chronic: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Coma: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Computerized tomography: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Cure: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Dementia: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Department of Health and Human Services: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Depression: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Diagnosis: See the definition from MedTerms.com

DNA: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Drain: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Dura: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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Dura mater: See the definition from MedTerms.com

EEG: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Electroencephalogram: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Encephalitis: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Encephalopathy: See the definition from MedTerms.com

False positive: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Familial: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Family history: See the definition from MedTerms.com

FDA: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Fever: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Flu: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Food and Drug Administration: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Gene: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Genes: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Genetic: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Growth hormone: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Health and Human Services: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Hemophilia: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Hormone: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Hospice: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Human growth: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Iatrogenic: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Implantation: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Incubation period: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Infection: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Infectivity: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Inflammation: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Insomnia: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Interferon: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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Involuntary: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Isolate: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Kuru: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Laboratory: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Lymph: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Marker: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Memory: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Meningitis: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Microscope: See the definition from MedTerms.com

MRI: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Muscle: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Muscular: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Mutation: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Myoclonus: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Neurological: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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Neuron: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Neuropathologist: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Neurosurgeon: See the definition from MedTerms.com

NIH: See the definition from MedTerms.com

NINDS: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Nucleic acids: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Offspring: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Onset: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Operation: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Opiate: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Pain: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Palliative care: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Pathology: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Pituitary: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Plasma: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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Pneumonia: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Prion: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Prion disease: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Progressive: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Protein: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Proteins: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Prusiner: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Psychiatric: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Recombinant: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Referral: See the definition from MedTerms.com

RNA: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Rule out: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Serum: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Sodium: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Sperm: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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Spinal cord: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Spinal Tap: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Spleen: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Spongiform: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Sporadic: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Stroke: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Surgeon: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Tomography: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Tonsils: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Transfusion: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Tumor: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Urine: See the definition from MedTerms.com

USDA: See the definition from MedTerms.com

vCJD: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Virus: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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Viruses: See the definition from MedTerms.com

World Health Organization: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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