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Definition of Chronic wasting disease
1. Noun. A wildlife disease (akin to bovine spongiform encephalitis) that affects deer and elk.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chronic Wasting Disease
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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