disseminated multiple sclerosis

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   a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers

   Synonymsmultiple sclerosisMSdisseminated sclerosis

   Broadersclerosisdegenerative disorderautoimmune disease

   Partsdemyelination

Questions about disseminated multiple sclerosis

What does disseminated multiple sclerosis mean?

disseminated multiple sclerosis means "a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers".

What is another word for disseminated multiple sclerosis?

Close synonyms include multiple sclerosis, MS, disseminated sclerosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disseminated multiple sclerosis a common word?

disseminated multiple sclerosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.