chronic wasting disease

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

   Broaderanimal disease

Questions about chronic wasting disease

What does chronic wasting disease mean?

chronic wasting disease means "a wildlife disease (akin to bovine spongiform encephalitis) that affects deer and elk".

Is chronic wasting disease a common word?

chronic wasting disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.