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DISSEMINATED 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 ("disseminated 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 "disseminated sclerosis"):
demyelination (loss of the myelin covering of some nerve fibers resulting in their impaired function)
