sclerosis : Idioms & Phrases

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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

  • noun thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs
    Lou Gehrig's disease; ALS.
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arterial sclerosis

  • noun sclerosis of the arterial walls
    arteriosclerosis; induration of the arteries; coronary-artery disease; hardening of the arteries.
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Cerebro-spinal sclerosis

  • (Med.), an affection in which patches of hardening, produced by increase of the neuroglia and atrophy of the true nerve tissue, are found scattered throughout the brain and spinal cord. It is associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and is usually fatal. Called also multiple, disseminated, ∨ insular, sclerosis.
Webster 1913

disseminated multiple sclerosis

  • noun a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
    disseminated multiple sclerosis; disseminated sclerosis; MS.
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disseminated sclerosis

  • noun a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
    disseminated multiple sclerosis; disseminated sclerosis; MS.
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multiple sclerosis

  • noun a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
    disseminated multiple sclerosis; disseminated sclerosis; MS.
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