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| scra·pie [ skráypee ] |
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disease of sheep and goats: a usually fatal disease affecting the nervous system of sheep and goats that is marked by intense itching and loss of muscular control. It is now thought to be one of the diseases caused by a prion, and is similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
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| [Early 20th century. <scrape, because the animals rub against objects to alleviate itching] |
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