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bovine spongiform encephalopathy cow hock mad cow disease

Main Entry: bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Function: noun
: a fatal spongiform encephalopathy of cattle affecting the nervous system, resembling or identical with scrapie of sheep and goats, and probably caused by a prion transmitted by infected tissue in food -- abbreviation BSE; called also mad cow disease