kuru

Meaning of kuru

noun

A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.

Information about kuru

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of kuru is: kurus.
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Hyphenation of kuru

kuru

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • kuru is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

kuru synonyms

Meaning piaster:

piaster

Anagrams of kuru

Uruk

Words that rhyme with kuru

Nakuru, tumatakuru, tumatukuru

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