NOUN
- 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
How To Use kuru In A Sentence
- The women in Indonesia and Malaysia wear what is known as baju kurung and baju kebaya. Archive 2009-09-01
- The paper reported that in Nakuru, more than 350 employees went on a go-slow to protest the delay in paying salary arrears and allowances.
- Even though they cooked the bodies before eating them, they still contracted a mysterious fatal illness called "kuru," akin to mad-cow disease. Readthehook.com - Current Articles
- Funeral services for Adela Clara Sehon Pinkert, 86, of Levelland, will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 30, 2009 at St. Michael's Catholic Church of Levelland with Rev. Martin Pina officiating and concelebrant Rev. Joseph Kurumbel, S.B. and Deacon Leo Cottoneir asssiting. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines
- In spite of this Gajdusek showed that the disease was caused by an infectious agent which in chimpanzees gave a disease identical with kuru in man. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976 - Presentation Speech
- In 2008, things were much worse: a confidential report written for Paradzayi Zimondi advised him that prisoners at Chikurubi Prison went for days without a meal and were occasionally supplied with food "only meant to keep a person alive" such as sadza and salted, unclean water. Crikey » Canberra Calling
- The clan of Kurush Khan, a subchief of one of the more barbarous Hyrkanian tribes from east of the Sea of Vilayet, had been driven westward out of its native steppes by a tribal feud. Conan the Freebooter
- Malaysia's sultans are considered standard-bearers of traditional dress and the baju kurung itself was refined and popularized a century ago by a sultan.
- The baju kurung moden is a hybrid from the true traditional baju kurung, and is worn frequently by Malay women in Malaysia even to work.
- Having slain those Kurus -- our kinsmen, that is, our friends and well-wishers, -- we shall have to sink in hell, beads (hanging) downwards. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
