Kuru Definition

ko͝oro͝o
noun
A degenerative disease of the central nervous system, found among certain indigenous people of the eastern highlands of New Guinea.
Webster's New World

Origin of Kuru

  • From Fore, literally meaning ‘shaking death’.

    From Wiktionary

  • Fore (language of eastern Papua New Guinea)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Kuru Sentence Examples

  • It then runs west, south and east round the rock-mass of Musher Dagh, and receives (right) the Kuru Chai, down which the Sivas-Malatia road runs, and the Tokhma Su, from Gorun (Gauraina) and Darende.

  • Here they explored the Kuru, or Lhobrak Chu, which proves to be the largest river in Bhutan.

  • Similar groups of works at Pashachajir and Gunes Chiftlik continue the line of defence between Lower Maritsa and Tunja, merging in the line of the old permanent works at Fort Kuru Cheshme.

  • Children of kuru-affected mothers were not found to develop kuru, 12 suggesting that maternal transmission was not involved.

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Words Starting With

KKUKUR

Words Ending With

URUURU

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Words Starting With K and Ending With U

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