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vCJD

vCJD is the initialism of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.

Meaning of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

Noun

variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (uncountable)

  1. A fatal type of brain disease within the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy family.

Synonyms of vCJD

  • nvCJD
  • human BSE
  • human spongiform encephalopathy
  • human mad cow disease
  • human mad cow

Questions about vCJD

What is vCJD the initialism of?
VCJD is the initialism of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.

Words near vCJD in the dictionary

  1. VCFD
  2. VCH
  3. VCHs
  4. VCI
  5. VCing
  6. vCJD
  7. VCL
  8. VCM
  9. VCMs
  10. VCO
  11. VCO2

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vCJD (page history and authors); variant 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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