Description of the disease date back to at least 1824 by Charles Bell. In 1869 the connection between the symptoms and the underlying neurological problems were first described by Jean-Martin Charcot who in 1874 began using the term amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It became well known in the United States when it affected a famous baseball player b...
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degenerative neurological disorder that causes muscle atrophy and paralysis. The disease usually occurs after the age of 40; it affects men more ... [5 related articles]
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ALS is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease after the famous baseball player who died from it in 1941 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease, is a rapidly progressive, invariably fatal neurological disease that attacks the neurons (nerve cells) responsible for c...
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A serious neurologic disease that results from the progressive degeneration of the motor neurons. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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(a-mi″-o-trof´ik lat´әr-әl slkә-ro´sis) a progressive neurologic disease with degeneration of lower motor neurons in the gray matter of the anterior horns of the spinal cord, some brainstem motor neurons, and the pyramidal tracts. The disease presents in middle age and affects men two to three ti...
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(= Lou Gehrig&`s disease; motor neuron disease) Progressive degenerative disease of motor neurons in the brain stem and spinal cord that leads to weakening of the voluntary muscles.
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(ALS) Type: Term Definitions: 1. a fatal degenerative disease involving the corticobulbar, corticospinal, and spinal motor neurons, manifested by progressive weakness and wasting of muscles innervated by the affected neurons; fasciculations and cramps commonly occur. The disorder is 90-95% sporadic in nature (although a number of...
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n] - thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord
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the most common of a group of disorders known as motor neurone diseases, in which the nerves in the brain that control the movement of muscles degenerate and muscle function is gradually lost; commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease
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ALS noun thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs
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an incurable disease of unknown cause in which progressive degeneration of motor neurons in the brain stem and spinal cord leads to atrophy and eventually complete paralysis of the voluntary muscles. Abbr.: ALS Also called
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