n :  a rare progressive and fatal demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that occurs in immunosuppressed individuals prob. due to loss of childhood immunity to a papovavirus ubiquitous in human populations and that is characterized by hemianopia, hemiplegia, alterations in mental state, and eventually coma .
 
 
 
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