multiple sclerosis
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- noun
- /ˈmʌltɪpl skləˈroʊsɪs/
- Specialized
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esclerosis múltiple
- Lois, his wife, was discovered to have multiple sclerosis five years ago.
- multiple sclerosis disease
- multiple sclerosis patients
- progressive multiple sclerosis
It turns out the incidence of depression as a comorbidity in multiple sclerosis is enormous.
- It turns out the incidence of depression as a comorbidity in multiple sclerosis is enormous.
- My mom has a disease called multiple sclerosis and one of the side effects is depression.
- And then they had these white matter disease in their head in their brain looks like multiple sclerosis.
- Now since then there's been a lot of research to show how stress and trauma potentiate multiple sclerosis.
- Like I'm on one drug for the multiple sclerosis, for spasticity.
- Unfortunately, things like brain tumors and conditions like multiple sclerosis will catch those.
- My wife getting diagnosed with multiple sclerosis like yo, it's just life y'all life ain't life.
- Grief grief A Danish study parents who lost a child have doubled the risk of multiple sclerosis.
- And so we had some of the first clinical trials of cannabis for pain and for spasticity and multiple sclerosis.
- They'll induce a, a multiple sclerosis like syndrome in mice and show that by changing gut microbes you can change the rate at which these diseases progress.
Examples
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My mom has a disease called multiple sclerosis and one of the side effects is depression.
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Treatment options for patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis are few.
Academic text (2002) -
Um, seven months after we were married, we found out that I had multiple sclerosis.
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Later, she told me that when she was six, her father developed multiple sclerosis and needed a wheelchair.
Fiction book (1991) -
My wife has multiple sclerosis and can't even walk half the time without a cane.
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There's a research program here for multiple sclerosis, an experimental treatment.
Fiction book (1997) -
Mrs. X suffers from end-stage multiple sclerosis and can no longer move either leg or her left arm.
Academic text (2008) -
And multiple sclerosis will eat away the myelin, thus exposing the nerve and eroding it over time.
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It turns out the incidence of depression as a comorbidity in multiple sclerosis is enormous.
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My mom has a disease called multiple sclerosis and one of the side effects is depression.
Synonyms
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A long-lasting disease of the nerves that causes weakness, numbness, and vision changes
A long-term disease that damages nerves in the brain and spinal cord
A long-term disease of the nerves that causes patches of damage to their protective covering often causing numbness and weakness
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'multiple' (many) + 'sclerosis' (hardening) give a partially transparent sense — a condition involving multiple areas of hardening — and many languages use a cognate construction, so learners can infer a general pathology. However, the specific medical meaning (a progressive autoimmune demyelinating disease of the nervous system) and its clinical implications are not derivable from the parts alone, making the term only partially predictable.
Etymology
Multiple sclerosis comes from what doctors saw in the body: many hard scars in the brain and spine. The word multiple means 'many' and sclerosis means 'hardening' or 'scars', so the name describes the many damaged areas that cause the illness.