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spongiform

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spon·gi·form  (spnj-fôrm)
adj.
Resembling a sponge in appearance or texture; spongy.
[Latin spongia, sponge; see sponge + -form.]
spongiform [ˈspʌndʒɪˌfɔːm]
adj
1. resembling a sponge in appearance, esp in having many holes
2. (Medicine / Pathology) denoting diseases characterized by this appearance of affected tissues
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Prion diseases are well-researched disorders in deer (CWD), cattle (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), sheep and goats (scrapie), cats (feline spongiform encephalopathy, FSE) and in humans (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, CJD).
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CWD is a type of brain-damaging disease known as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) or prion disease.
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net PUBLIC disquiet over Mad Cow Disease - more accurately Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - was high in May 1990.
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