multiple sclerosis

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

   SynonymsMSdisseminated sclerosisdisseminated multiple sclerosis

   Broadersclerosisdegenerative disorderautoimmune disease

   Partsdemyelination

Questions about multiple sclerosis

What does multiple sclerosis mean?

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

What is another word for multiple sclerosis?

Close synonyms include MS, disseminated sclerosis, disseminated multiple 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 multiple sclerosis a common word?

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.