Scrapie: A communicable spongiform encephalopathy of the central nervous system of sheep and goats caused by a prion and characterized by a very long incubation period followed by pruritus, abnormalities of gait, and invariably death; it resembles Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and kuru in humans. [from scraping by affected animals against objects to relieve itching]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Scrapie: fatal disease of the nervous system in sheep and goats, characterized by pruritus, debility, and locomotor incoordination, caused by proteinaceous infectious particles called prions.
Source: CRISP
Scrapie: A fatal disease of the nervous system in sheep and goats, characterized by pruritus, debility, and locomotor incoordination. It is caused by proteinaceous infectious particles called PRIONS.
Source: MeSH 2007
Scrapie is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Scrapie, or a subtype of Scrapie,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Scrapie: Type of or association with medical condition Prion diseases.
»Introduction: Prion diseases
Scrapie: Scrapie is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:
Prion diseases (medical condition): Various diseases caused by abnormal proteins (prions) in the brain.
Prion diseases (medical condition): Prions are abnormal proteins that attack the brain from inside. None of the human prion diseases are common and animal prion diseases are more common. The various transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in animals caused by prions include the famous "mad cow disease" (BSE), scrapies in sheep, chronic wasting disease of deer and elk, and various others. Human prion diseases include CJD, variant CJD (possibly linked to BSE), the obscure kuru (from brain cannibalism in New Guinea), Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease, and the bizarre fatal familial insomnia (where a person literally dies because they cannot fall asleep). See detailed discussion in article Prion Diseases.
Source - NIH
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - CRISP
Source: CRISP
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