| kuru |
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 abandoned 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey
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| Kussmaul's coma |
diabetic coma: coma that can develop in inadequately treated cases of diabetes mellitus
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| Kuhn |
Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967)
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| Kunjin virus |
a mosquito-borne virus of the genus Flavivirus, antigenically related to Japanese encephalitis virus, that causes febrile disease and encephalitis in Australia and the Malay Archipelago.
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| Kuhnt's meniscus |
the lining of the physiologic cup of the optic disk, composed of a thick accumulation of neuroglia.
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