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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
multiple sclerosis
    n 1: a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of
         myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers [syn: multiple
         sclerosis, MS, disseminated sclerosis, disseminated
         multiple sclerosis]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sclerosis \Scle*ro"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. (??, fr. sklhro`s
   hard.]
   1. (Med.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of
      induration produced in an organ by increase of its
      interstitial connective tissue.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Bot.) Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
      [1913 Webster]

   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. Formerly referred to as multiple
      sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, or insular
      sclerosis, but now usually called only multiple
      sclerosis, or MS.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

Thesaurus Results for multiple sclerosis:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
MS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, brain disease, cephalalgia, cerebral palsy, chorea, emotional disorder, epilepsy, falling sickness, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, headache, herpes zoster, ischialgia, migraine, nervous disorder, neuralgia, neuritis, neuropathy, organic psychosis, palsy, polyneuritis, pressure neuropathy, priapism, radiculitis, sciatic neuritis, sciatica, shaking palsy, shingles, spastic paralysis, the jerks, tic douloureux, toxic psychosis
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