amyotrophic

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• The New Jersey case involved a ventilator-dependent woman dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease).

  Academic text (2002)

• His team also uses advanced MRI techniques to evaluate upper motor neuron disease in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

  Blog text (24)

• The guy was 30 years old, never sick a day in his life, and then suddenly, out of left field, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  Stardust Memories (1980)

• 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.

  Blog text (6)

• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is diffuse, and the patient would not have survived to this degree of atrophy.

  Academic text (1995)

• In 1963, his condition was diagnosed as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  Academic text (1991)

• He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease that saps muscle mobility but not feeling.

  Blog text (10)

• The story follows Bec, a college student who becomes a caregiver for a married woman with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often called Lou Gehrig's disease).

  Academic text (2009)

• Many individuals diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis experience significant muscle weakness.

Synonyms

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atrophic

vsamyotrophic

• Specialized

9.6

Having a body part that is much thinner and weaker because it has lost tissue or muscle

is specific to loss of muscle tissue often caused by nerve degeneration

Compounds

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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

• Specialized

1 6.8

A disease that slowly destroys nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control muscles

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Etymology