Medicine Word Today

Cerebral amyloidosis & spongiform encephalopathy: See: Gerstmann-Str

Subacute spongiform encephalopathy: See: Gerstmann-Str

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy: One of a number of progressive neurodegenerative disorders in animals and humans caused by similar uncharacterized agents that produce spongiform changes in the brain. Specific examples of transmissible spongif...

Spongiform: Resembling a sponge in being soft and full of cavities, as in as in transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.

Spongiform encephalopathy & cerebral amyloidosis: See: Gerstmann-Str