Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun kuru

1 sense of kuru

Sense 1
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)
       => nervous disorder, neurological disorder, neurological disease -- (a disorder of the nervous system)