scrapie
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English
Etymology
From scrape + -ie, from the tendency of affected animals to scrape themselves against solid objects.
Pronunciation
Noun
scrapie (countable and uncountable, plural scrapies)
- A degenerative prion disease of sheep and goats that attacks the central nervous system.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 272:
- This incurable disease, called scrapie, became a large problem, often killing one ewe in ten.
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Translations
A degenerative prion disease
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Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English scrapie.
Pronunciation
Noun
scrapie m or f (uncountable)