noun
a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
• Syn: ↑multiple sclerosis, ↑MS, ↑disseminated multiple sclerosis
• Hypernyms: ↑sclerosis, ↑induration, ↑degenerative disorder, ↑autoimmune disease, ↑autoimmune disorder
• Part Meronyms: ↑demyelination
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disseminated sclerosis noun
An older name for ↑multiple sclerosis (see under ↑multiple)
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Main Entry: ↑disseminate
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disseminated sclerosis,
British. = multiple sclerosis. (Cf. ↑multiple sclerosis)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.