(MS) An autoimmune disease in which the body's natural defenses attack the myelin sheath covering the axons of neurons in the central nervous system. Symptoms include numbness, clumsiness, and blurred vision.
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a progressive disease of the central nervous system characterized by the destruction of the myelin sheath surrounding the nerve fibres of the brain, ... [6 related articles]
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A disorder of the central nervous system marked by weakness, numbness, a loss of muscle coordination, and problems with vision, speech, and bladder control. Multiple sclerosis is thought to be an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system destroys myelin. Myelin is a substance that contains both protein and fat (lipid), serving as a nerve...
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a central nervous system disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. It damages the myelin sheath, the material that surrounds and protects the neurons (nerve cells). This damage slows down or blocks messages between the brain and the rest of the body, leading to the s...
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MS is a neurological disease, chiefly of young adults, marked by speech disturbances, lack of muscular co-ordination, weakness, and numbness, caused by damaged patches in the brain and spinal cord. It varies in severity. No cure is available and the cause is unknown.
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<neurology> Neurodegenerative disease characterised by the gradual accumulation of focal plaques of demyelination particularly in the periventricular areas of the brain. Peripheral nerves are not affected. Onset usually in 3rd or 4th decade with intermittent progression over an extended period. Cause still uncertain. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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(MS) a chronic neurologic disease in which there are patches of demyelination scattered throughout the white matter of the central nervous system, sometimes extending into the gray matter. The disease primarily affects the myelin and not the neurons themselves. Symptoms are usually weakness, incoordination, paresthesias...
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Neurodegenerative disease characterized by the gradual accumulation of focal plaques of demyelination particularly in the periventricular areas of the brain. Peripheral nerves are not affected. Onset usually in 3rd or 4th decade with intermittent progression over an extended period. Cause still uncertain.
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(MS) Type: Term Definitions: 1. common demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system, causing patches of sclerosis (plaques) in the brain and spinal cord; occurs primarily in young adults, and has protean clinical manifestations, depending on the location and size of the plaque; typical symptoms include visual loss, diplop...
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Our Multiple sclerosis Main Article provides a comprehensive look at the who, what, when and how of Multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis: Abbreviated MS. A disease of the central nervous system (CNS) marked by numbness, weakness, loss of muscle coordination, and problems with vision, speech, and bladder control. MS is an autoimmune disease in whic...
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multiple sclerosis (disseminated sclerosis) is a chronic progressive disease of the central nervous system characterised by loss of some of the myelin sheath surrounding certain nerve fibres which results in speech and visual disorders, tremors, muscular incoordination, partial paralysis, and finally death.
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A chronic, usually progressive disease of the central nervous system, with the gradual patchy disorganization of the protective myelin cells.
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n] - a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
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autoimmune attack on the myelin sheaths and nerve cells in the central nervous system
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system characterized by the destruction of the myelin sheath surrounding neurons, resulting in the formation of “plaques.” MS is a progressive and usually fluctuating disease with exacerbations (patients feeling worse) and remissions (patients feeling better) over many decades. Eventua...
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a disease in which the protective coverings (myelin) of nerve fibres in the brain are gradually destroyed; symptoms vary from numbness to paralysis and loss of control of bodily function
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MS noun a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
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Incurable chronic disease of the central nervous system, occurring in young or middle adulthood. Most prevalent in temperate zones, it affects more women than men. It is characterized by degeneration of the myelin sheath that surrounds nerves in the brain and spinal cord. Depending on where the demyelination occurs – which nerves are affected ......
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a chronic degenerative, often episodic disease of the central nervous system marked by patchy destruction of the myelin that surrounds and insulates nerve fibers, usually appearing in young adulthood and manifested by one or more mild to severe neural and muscular impairments, as spastic weakness in one or more limbs, local sensory losses, bladd......
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