AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS


Meaning of AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS in English

noun Etymology: 2a- + 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

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