scrapie
pronunciation
How to pronounce scrapie in British English:
UK [ˈskreɪpi]
How to pronounce scrapie in American English:
US [ˈskrepi, ˈskræpi]
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- Noun:
- a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system
Word Origin
Example
- 1. World distribution of scrapie and control measures in various countries .
- 2. The national scrapie plan administrative centre nspac .
- 3. Thought to have started from feeding brain tissue from sheep having died of scrapie .
- 4. Scrapie affects the central nervous system and causes severe itching or drowsiness .
- 5. There have never been scrapie , bovine spongiform encephalopathy , african horse sickness , african swine fever , vesicular stomatitis , lumpy skin disease , rift valley fever and peste-des-petits ruminants in china .