kuru

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kuru - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  kuru
      n 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