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Multiple Sclerosis

see synonyms of multiple sclerosis

Noun

1. disseminated multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, ms, multiple sclerosis

a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Multiple Sclerosis

see synonyms of multiple sclerosis
noun
a chronic progressive disease of the central nervous system characterized by loss of some of the myelin sheath surrounding certain nerve fibres and resulting in speech and visual disorders, tremor, muscular incoordination, partial paralysis, etc
. Also called: disseminated sclerosis. Abbreviation: MS

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Multiple Sclerosis

see synonyms of multiple sclerosis
a chronic disease in which there is scattered demyelination of the central nervous system: it may result in speech defects, loss of muscular coordination, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Multiple Sclerosis

see synonyms of multiple sclerosis
n. Abbr. MS
A chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system in which gradual destruction of myelin occurs in patches throughout the brain or spinal cord or both, interfering with the nerve pathways and causing muscular weakness, loss of coordination, and speech and visual disturbances.

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