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BSE

BSE is the initialism of Bombay Stock Exchange.

BSE is the initialism of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

BSE is the initialism of Bachelor of Science in Engineering.

BSE is the initialism of Bachelor of Science in Economics.

BSE is the initialism of breast self-examination.

BSE is the initialism of backscattered electrons.

Meaning of bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Noun

bovine spongiform encephalopathy (uncountable, abbreviation BSE)

  1. A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues.
    • The outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) have limited some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords.
    Synonyms:
    mad cow disease

Questions about BSE

What is BSE the initialism of?
BSE is the initialism of Bombay Stock Exchange.

Words near BSE in the dictionary

  1. BSDA
  2. BSDE
  3. BSDEs
  4. bsdk
  5. BSDs
  6. BSE
  7. BSEC
  8. BSEd
  9. BSEE
  10. BSer
  11. BSers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BSE (page history and authors); bovine spongiform encephalopathy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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