Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Bachelor of Secondary Education
  • abbreviation bovine spongiform encephalopathy

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  • initialism pathology, neurology bovine spongiform encephalopathy
  • initialism Bombay Stock Exchange
  • initialism Bachelor of Science in Engineering
  • initialism breast self-examination
  • initialism Back-scattered electrons

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  • noun a fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitation

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Examples

  • As bird flu wings its way closer to these shores we can all take comfort from the fact that the man who headed up the Ministry of Agriculture at the time of BSE is publishing a book called THE POLITICS OF BSE.

    Bird Flu - Read This & Be Very Frightened 2006

  • The director of research and operations at TASIS, Shariq Nisar, says the index, called BSE TASIS Sharia 50, will make it possible for Muslims to invest their money in the stock market without violating Sharia investment guidelines.

    India's Bombay Stock Exchange Launches Index for Muslims 2010

  • The director of research and operations at TASIS, Shariq Nisar, says the index, called BSE TASIS Sharia 50, will make it possible for Muslims to invest their money in the stock market without violating Sharia investment guidelines.

    India's Bombay Stock Exchange Launches Index for Muslims 2010

  • Three words: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, aka BSE or mad cow disease.

    Kerry Trueman: Meat Takes a Beating, Gets a Blessing on Larry King 2009

  • Group Submits Supplemental Comments yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Group Submits Supplemental Comments'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: On May 15, 2009, Canada detected its 17th case of BSE, which is its 10th case born after the OTM Rule\'s import eligibility date, meaning that these 10 infected animals could have been imported into the U.S. prior to exhibiting symptoms of BSE.

    Group Submits Supplemental Comments 2009

  • Not a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy also known as BSE, or "mad cow disease", anywhere, has ever turned up in cattle that were raised on pasture grass or organic feed.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Doppelganger 2007

  • In the last year, we have tested 20,526 head of cattle for BSE, which is triple the level of the previous year of 2002.

    CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2003 2003

  • Other prion diseases, in animals, there is a disease of cattle called BSE or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (commonly called mad cow disease), in sheep there is "scrapie" and in humans, there is GerstmannSträusslerScheinker syndrome (GSS), fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and kuru-kuru in humans in Papua New Guinea.

    WN.com - Articles related to Japan suspends beef exports over foot-and-mouth 2010

  • Other prion diseases, in animals, there is a disease of cattle called BSE or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (commonly called mad cow disease), in sheep there is "scrapie" and in humans, there is GerstmannSträusslerScheinker syndrome (GSS), fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and kuru-kuru in humans in Papua New Guinea.

    WN.com - Articles related to Japan suspends beef exports over foot-and-mouth 2010

  • Other prion diseases, in animals, there is a disease of cattle called BSE or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (commonly called mad cow disease), in sheep there is "scrapie" and in humans, there is GerstmannSträusslerScheinker syndrome (GSS), fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and kuru-kuru in humans in Papua New Guinea.

    WN.com - Articles related to Japan suspends beef exports over foot-and-mouth 2010

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