CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chronic wasting disease mean? 

• CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE (noun)
  The noun CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. a wildlife disease (akin to bovine spongiform encephalitis) that affects deer and elk

  Familiarity information: CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wildlife disease (akin to bovine spongiform encephalitis) that affects deer and elk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("chronic wasting disease" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

 Context examples 

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) did not cross the species barrier to infect cynomolgus macaque monkeys during a lengthy investigation by National Institutes of Health scientists exploring risks to humans.

(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)