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CJD

CJD is the initialism of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Meaning of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Noun

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (uncountable)

  1. A rare, progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. It is a prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (e.g. corneal transplants, blood transfusions).
    Synonyms:
    CJD

Questions about CJD

What is CJD the initialism of?
CJD is the initialism of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Words near CJD in the dictionary

  1. Ciziks
  2. cizolirtine
  3. cizye
  4. CJ
  5. CJAHL
  6. CJD
  7. CJEU
  8. CJFO
  9. CJFOs
  10. CJIRU
  11. CJK

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CJD (page history and authors); Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (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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