Source : WordNet®

kuru
     n 1: 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
     2: 100 kurus equal 1 lira [syn: {piaster}, {piastre}]