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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

n :  a rare fatal progressive degenerative disease that affects pyramidal motor neurons, usu. begins in middle age, and is characterized esp. by increasing and spreading muscular weakness - abbr. ALS - called also Lou Gehrig's disease  .
 
 

 
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