Spongiform Definition

spŭnjĭ-fôrm
adjective
Resembling a sponge in appearance or texture; spongy.
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Origin of Spongiform

  • Latin spongia sponge sponge –form

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Ancient Greek σπόγγος (spongos, “sponge") + -form

    From Wiktionary

Spongiform Sentence Examples

  • The death of a domestic Siamese cat from a spongiform encephalopathy (SE) in Bristol was reported to Ministers in May 1990.

  • There are two hypotheses about the TSE agent [the agent that transmits Spongiform encephalopathy] .

  • Bovine spongiform encephalopathy was reported in four cattle in Ireland where energetic measures have been taken to control the disease.

  • Neither was there any recorded transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in pigs or poultry.

  • All the spongiform encephalopathies can be transmitted in the laboratory but only scrapie is known to be naturally transmissible among sheep.

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