Noun: kuru
- A progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned
"Kuru was once endemic among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea"
Type of: nervous disorder, neurological disease, neurological disorder
Encyclopedia: Kuru, Lohardaga