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 abandoned100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey
同义词：piasterpiastre
英汉双解大词典
kuru/ˈkʊruː/
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a degenerative disease of the nervous system, restricted to certain tribes in New Guinea, marked by loss of muscular control and thought to be caused by a slow virus 库鲁病; 新几内亚震颤病