MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

multiple sclerosis

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as in cerebral palsy

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Recent Examples of multiple sclerosis Breathing in high levels of particulate matter also may cause multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease’s, diabetes, and asthma. — Lorraine Boissoneault, STAT, 12 Aug. 2026 The wider track record is poor, women with multiple sclerosis were diagnosed with hysteria for decades before the disease was reliably recognized in them. — Keely Cat-Wells, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2009, a few years after her son, 40, received an MS diagnosis. — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Aug. 2026 Fowler, who led the Atlanta tax division of the former accounting firm Arthur Andersen and served as chairman of the PATH Foundation board for 25 years, died July 27 in Sea Island, Georgia, from complications of multiple sclerosis. — Adrianne Murchison, AJC.com, 5 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for multiple sclerosis

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The human neurons suffered severe, selective damage, mimicking the cellular breakdown that causes cerebral palsy in human infants during difficult childbirths.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
Milayna has spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, while Naya has heart conditions, scoliosis and a limb difference.

— Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 29 Aug. 2026

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Other vaccines including for poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps and rubella will remain in place unless updated through legislation, according to the state Department of Health.

— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
Cases of paralytic poliomyelitis disease plummeted from over 15,000 a year in the early 1950s to under 100 in the 1960s and then down to fewer than 10 in the 1970s.

— Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2022

Definition of poliomyelitis

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