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CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chronic wasting disease mean? 

CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE (noun)
  The noun CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. a wildlife disease (akin to bovine spongiform encephalitis) that affects deer and elkplay

  Familiarity information: CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A wildlife disease (akin to bovine spongiform encephalitis) that affects deer and elk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("chronic wasting disease" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)


 Context examples 


Chronic wasting disease (CWD) did not cross the species barrier to infect cynomolgus macaque monkeys during a lengthy investigation by National Institutes of Health scientists exploring risks to humans.

(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)



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