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Resembling a sponge, usually right before that word ruins your appetite.
means Having a porous, holey texture like a sponge — infamously describing brains riddled with disease-caused gaps.
from Latin spongia (sponge) plus forma (shape), built for science that needed to say sponge-like with a straight face.
Mad cowBovine spongiform encephalopathy turns brains into deadly Swiss cheese.
Prion drivenCaused by misfolded proteins, not bacteria or viruses.
Microscopic onlyThe sponge texture appears solely under the microscope.