multiple_sclerosis has definitions from the fields of medicine,pathology
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[ noun ] (medicine,pathology) a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers

Used in print

(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)

This manifestation may be an early sign of multiple_sclerosis or the beginning of sewer 's cramp .

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

Mr._A. , her fellow townsman , also experienced a nervous_breakdown just as_soon_as he discovered that he had been bilked of his life savings by the limited practitioner who had been treating his wife - a woman suffering from an incurable disease , multiple_sclerosis - and himself .

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