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MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Synonyms:
disseminated multiple sclerosis; disseminated sclerosis; MS; multiple sclerosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("multiple sclerosis" is a kind of...):
degenerative disorder (condition leading to progressive loss of function)
induration; sclerosis (any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue)
autoimmune disease; autoimmune disorder (any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues)
Meronyms (parts of "multiple sclerosis"):
demyelination (loss of the myelin covering of some nerve fibers resulting in their impaired function)
Context examples:
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a nervous system disease that affects your brain and spinal cord.
(Multiple Sclerosis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
OPCs are found to multiply in the brains of multiple sclerosis patients as if to respond to myelin damage, but for unknown reasons they are not effective in restoring white matter.
(Drugs that activate brain stem cells may reverse multiple sclerosis, NIH)
Among people with early-stage multiple sclerosis (MS), those with higher blood levels of vitamin D had better outcomes during 5 years of follow-up.
(Vitamin D Levels Predict Multiple Sclerosis Progression, NIH)
Causes include autoimmune disorders, infections, toxins, drugs, and multiple sclerosis.
(Optic neuritis, NCI Thesaurus)
Disease Steps in multiple sclerosis: A simple approach to evaluate disease progression.
(Patient Determined Disease Steps Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
It may be caused by infection, drugs, toxins, and diseases of the immune system, such as multiple sclerosis.
(Optic neuritis, NCI Dictionary)
Representative disorders causing ophthalmoplegia include ocular myopathies and multiple sclerosis.
(Ophthalmoplegia, NCI Thesaurus)
Prior studies on the diet have shown potential for alleviating symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease multiple sclerosis, increasing the efficacy of chemotherapy for cancer treatments, and decreasing visceral fat.
(Fasting-Mimicking Diet May Reverse Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Acquired causes include ischemia, optic nerve neuropathy, glaucoma, trauma, radiation, brain tumors, and multiple sclerosis.
(Optic Atrophy, NCI Thesaurus)
It may be observed in patients with stroke, motor neuron disorders, cancer of the throat or mouth, head and neck injuries, Parkinson disease, and multiple sclerosis.
(Dysphagia, NCI Thesaurus)
