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 multiple sclerosis 名詞
 多發性硬化症,軸周性硬化性腦炎,多發性硬化

 Scle·ro·sis n.
 1. Med. Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.
 2. Bot. Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
 Cerebro-spinal sclerosis Med., an affection in which patches of hardening, produced by increase of the neuroglia and atrophy of the true nerve tissue, are found scattered throughout the brain and spinal cord. It is associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and is usually fatal.  Formerly referred to as multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, or insular sclerosis, but now usually called only multiple sclerosis, or MS.
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 multiple sclerosis
      n : a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of
          myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers [syn: MS, disseminated
          sclerosis, disseminated multiple sclerosis]