Medical Definition of Transmissible mink encephalopathy
1.
Unconventional type of slow virus infection, similar to kuru, scrapie and Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.
See: prion.
Origin: Gr. Pathos = disease
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy
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