AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS


Meaning of AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌā-ˌmī-ə-ˈtrō-fik-, -ˈträ- ]

noun

Etymology: a- (II) + my- + -trophic

Date: 1886

: a rare progressive degenerative fatal disease affecting the motor neurons, usually beginning in middle age, and characterized especially by increasing and spreading muscular weakness and atrophy — abbreviation ALS ; called also Lou Gehrig's disease

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.