multiple sclerosis
multiple sclerosis
Definition
multiple sclerosis
noun
a chronic disease in which there is scattered demyelination of the central nervous system: it may result in speech defects, loss of muscular coordination, etc.
multiple sclerosis
Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- progressive: JK Rowling is also patron of the MS Society Scotland as her own mother's life was claimed by progressive multiple sclerosis.
- secondary: She, and the next 35 patients, had secondary progressive multiple sclerosis.
- e.g.: Her work took her all around Devon supporting families with physical handicap problems e.g. multiple sclerosis.
- aggressive: We have treated a small group of people with aggressive relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis using an experimental drug called Campath-1H.
- advanced: An open-label pilot study of cannabis-based extracts for bladder dysfunction in advanced multiple sclerosis.
- primary: But no treatment is available for a second form called primary progressive multiple sclerosis.
Converse of object
- relapsing-remitting: The saving per relapse prevented was assumed to be the same as for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
- relapse: Rebif is indicated for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis.
- remit: Clinical efficacy TYSABRI is indicated as a single disease modifying therapy in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis to prevent relapses and delay progression of disability.
- treat: GW's most advanced product is under trial to treat multiple sclerosis.
- have: A few weeks later I was told I had multiple sclerosis.
- develop: Recently long term studies of patients with ADEM have shown that a small number later on develop multiple sclerosis.
Preposition: for
- year: It's written by a nurse and journalist who himself has lived with multiple sclerosis for years and is upbeat and lively in style.
Converse of subject
- affect: Recommended Sites MS Society Site of the UKs largest charity for people affected by multiple sclerosis.
- paralyze: A woman paralyzed by multiple sclerosis rode a horse for the first time in years.
Preposition: in
- phase: To distinguish ADEM from multiple sclerosis in the initial phases may be more difficult.
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