Contact Temperature Sensor Types â These types of temperature sensor are required to be in physical contact with the object being sensed and use conduction to monitor changes in temperature. They can be used to detect solids, liquids or gases over a wide range of temperatures.
Mad cow disease is an incurable, fatal brain disease that affects cattle. Different versions of the disease can affect certain other animals, like goats and sheep. The medical name for mad cow disease is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (pronounced: BO-vine SPUN-jih-form en-seh-fah-LA-puh-thee), or BSE for short. It's called mad cow disease because it affects a cow's nervous system, causing a cow to act strangely and lose control of its ability to do normal things, such as walk.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- A British family harbors a deadly inherited illness that destroys the brain in a way that is similar to the dreaded mad cow disease, researchers report. The newly discovered condition doesn't appear to be contagious, unlike mad cow disease.