- bovine spon|gi|form encephalopathy
- bovine spon|gi|form encephalopathy «SPUHN jih- FRM»,a degenerative brain disease carried by cattle and caused by infection with a prion, transmitted in protein-enriched feed: »
If it turns out that…bovine spongiform encephalopathy has indeed leapt across the species barrier to become a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease…then there is little doubt how it happened
(New York Times). Abbr: BSE (no periods).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.