CJD

/sˌiːdʒˌeɪdˈiː/

[noun]

CJD

[NOUN]

a rare and potentially fatal disease that primarily affects the brain and causes brain damage that aggravates over time

synonyms : Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease

Examples

1. The scariest thing about CJD is that people who get it always lose their lives to it.

2. Before mad cow disease was a thing, we knew about CJD as a rare condition that could appear if a random protein went bad, usually through an inherited mutation, or through medical procedures like transplants.

3. Today, we keep the risk of variant CJD low by giving cows safer food and by making sure no nervous system tissue gets into our beef.

4. Experts don't yet know what causes CJD, nor do they really know how to look for it.