variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

noun

Definition of VARIANT CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE

: a fatal prion disease that is held to be a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease caused by the prion associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy and contracted by consuming infected beef or beef products—abbreviation vCJD; called also new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, variant CJD