Hypertext Webster Gateway: "kuru"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
kuru
n 1: a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked
by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to
paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of
symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by
cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since
the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was
abandoned
2: 100 kurus equal 1 lira [syn: {piaster}, {piastre}]
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