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kuru

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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈkʉː.ɹʉː/Part of speech nounSorted kruuStarts with KEnds with U0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A rare fatal brain disease linked to infectious prion proteins.

Word origin

From Fore kúru (literally “trembling, shivering”). Perhaps eventually from Proto-Gorokan *kút(V) (“dangling, shaking”) if cognate with the reduplicated element of Yagaria gúli gúli hu- (“be loose, rattle”).

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  • By the late 1950s, kuru was the leading cause of death among Fore women, and it had killed so many that men outnumbered women by three to one.

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