Definition of Chronic wasting disease

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

Generic synonyms: Animal Disease

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chronic Wasting Disease

chronic rheumatism
chronic rhinitis
chronic shock
chronic soroche
chronic subglottic laryngitis
chronic symptomatic HIV infection
chronic tamponade
chronic toxicity
chronic traumatic encephalopathy
chronic trypanosomiasis
chronic ulcer
chronic ulcerative proctitis
chronic urticaria
chronic venous insufficiency
chronic vertigo
chronic wasting disease (current term)
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Literary usage of Chronic wasting disease

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Uric Acid as a Factor in the Causation of Disease: A Contribution to the by Alexander Haig (1908)
"If a patient has chronic wasting disease, none of the drugs in our list will stop the plus excretion of uric acid ; acids, opium, ..."

2. Animal Health at the Crossroads: Preventing, Detecting, And Diagnosing by National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"ENDEMIC DISEASES: AVIAN INFLUENZA, chronic wasting disease, AND WEST NILE VIRUS A large array of ... The committee looked at chronic wasting disease ..."

3. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"Whipple's disease is a chronic wasting disease of man associated with intractable diarrhea, steatorrhea, weight loss, polyarthritis, and generalized ..."

4. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by James Meschter Anders (1911)
"It occurs most frequently between thirty and sixty, and always follows some chronic wasting disease or toxic condition. It has been described in pellagra.2 ..."

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