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A chronic non-contagious disease of the brain and spinal cord characterized by changes in sensation, visual problems, weakness, depression, difficulties with coordination and speech, impaired mobility and disability.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: MS
Antonyms: none provided
a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: MS, disseminated sclerosis, disseminated multiple sclerosis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: degenerative disorder, sclerosis, induration, autoimmune disease, autoimmune disorder
Ellipsis of multiple cerebral sclerosis, i.e. appearance of hardenings or nodules dispersed throughout parts of the central nervous system, in the brain or spinal cord. Confusingly, at some point during the 20th century most sources started dropping cerebral from the expression, even though sclerosis can occur in the other tissues of the body, in unrelated pathologies.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
تَصَلُّب لُوَيْحِيّ
(taṣallub luwayḥiyy)
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Catalan:
esclerosi múltiple
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Chinese Mandarin:
多發性硬化症 /多发性硬化症
(duōfāxìng yìnghuàzhèng)
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Czech:
roztroušená skleróza
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Dutch:
multiple sclerose
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Esperanto:
multloka sklerozo
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Finnish:
MS-tauti
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Finnish:
multippeliskleroosi
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Finnish:
pesäkekovettumatauti
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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French:
sclérose en plaques
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Georgian:
გაფანტული სკლეროზი
(gapanṭuli sḳlerozi)
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Hungarian:
sclerosis multiplex
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Icelandic:
mýlisskaði
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Icelandic:
heila- og mænusigg
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Irish:
scléaróis iolrach
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Japanese:
多発性硬化症
(tahatsuseikōkashō)
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Kazakh:
шашыраңқы склероз
(şaşyrañqy skleroz)
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Korean:
다발성 경화증
(dabalseong gyeonghwajeung)
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Malay:
roro tapepe
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Persian:
گرفتگی بافتهای گوناگون
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Polish:
stwardnienie rozsiane
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Portuguese:
esclerose múltipla
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Romanian:
scleroză multiplă
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Russian:
рассе́янный склеро́з
(rasséjannyj skleróz)
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Spanish:
esclerosis múltiple
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Swedish:
multipel skleros
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Tamil:
தண்டுவட மரப்பு நோய்
(taṇṭuvaṭa marappu nōy)
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Turkish:
multipl skleroz
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Vietnamese:
đa xơ cứng
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Vietnamese:
xơ cứng rải rác
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
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Welsh:
sglerosis ymledol
— chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord
