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1) scrapie. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A usually fatal disease of sheep and goats, marked by chronic itching, loss of muscular coordination, and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system....

2) prion. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...to a virus but lacking nucleic acid, thought to be the infectious agent responsible for scrapie and certain other degenerative diseases of the nervous system. pr(oteinaceous)...

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