(medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease; "there were no signs of asphyxiation"
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Friedreich's ataxia
sclerosis of the posterior and lateral columns of the spinal cord; characterized by muscular weakness and abnormal gait; occurs in children
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(medicine) something that can be used as a substitute (especially any medicine that may be taken in place of another)
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (‘phr…
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.impaired articulatory ability resulting from defects in the peripheral motor nerves or in the speech musculature
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (‘phr…
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves
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A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sclerosis, posterior, lateral, columns, spinal.thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sclerosis, posterior, lateral, columns, spinal.A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sclerosis, posterior, lateral, columns, spinal.Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphipr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sclerosis, posterior, lateral, columns, spinal.The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sclerosis, posterior, lateral, columns, spinal.A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and musc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sclerosis, posterior, lateral, columns, spinal.Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sclerosis, posterior, lateral, columns, spinal.(architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sclerosis, posterior, lateral, columns, spinal.abnormal spinal curvature that results when osteoporosis causes the spine to collapse; seen most often in elderly women
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sclerosis, posterior, lateral, columns, spinal.The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- freque…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sclerosis, posterior, lateral, columns, spinal.any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sclerosis, posterior, lateral, columns, spinal.an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sclerosis, posterior, lateral, columns, spinal.
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