“amyotrophic”

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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

noun

: 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


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