amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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- noun
- /ˌeɪmiəˈtroʊfɪk ˈlætərəl skləˈroʊsɪs/
- Specialized
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esclerosis lateral amiotrófica
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is diffuse, and the patient would not have survived to this degree of atrophy.
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Examples
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He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease that saps muscle mobility but not feeling.
Blog text (10) -
Demographic and dysarthria details of participants with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Academic text (2012) -
The guy was 30 years old, never sick a day in his life, and then suddenly, out of left field, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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In the first row slumps a young man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Fiction book (2000) -
Then he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease.
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As you will remember, the anti-HCRs said that the NHS would have left Stephen Hawking to die of his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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In 1963, his condition was diagnosed as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Academic text (1991) -
The New Jersey case involved a ventilator-dependent woman dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease).
Academic text (2002) -
The doctor explained that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly referred to as ALS, affects muscle control.
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After struggling with symptoms for years, she was finally diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Synonyms
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A serious disease that slowly damages the nerves in the brain and spine and makes the muscles weak and smaller
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A serious disease that slowly stops the muscles you can control from working
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
amyotrophic + lateral + sclerosis
The term is partly compositional: 'amyotrophic' (muscle wasting) + 'lateral' (side) + 'sclerosis' (hardening) together point to a medical condition involving hardening of lateral regions that causes muscle wasting. However, the full clinical sense — that this denotes a specific progressive motor-neuron disease with characteristic degeneration and clinical course — is specialized and not fully predictable for an average B1 learner, so understanding would require domain knowledge beyond the literal constituents.
Etymology
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis comes from Greek parts: a- 'no', myo- 'muscle', -trophic 'feed', plus lateral 'side' and sclerosis 'hardening'. So the name literally paints a picture of 'muscles not being fed' and 'hardening on the sides' of the spine, which helps remember that the disease makes muscles weak because nerve cells stop working.