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amyotrophic, a. Path.|əmaɪəˈtrɒfɪk| [f. next + -ic, after Gr. τροϕικ-ός feeding.] Pertaining to amyotrophy.
1879Syd. Soc. Lex., Amyotrophic paralysis is paralysis which is due to muscular atrophy.
Add:2. Special collocation: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [tr. F. sclerose latérale amyotrophique (coined by J. M. Charcot 1874, in Progrès Med. II. 325/1)], a rare degenerative motor neurone disease which results in progressive muscular atrophy, usu. beginning in the hands, and spasticity in the limbs.
1886Brain VIII. 165 Two cases showing during life the typical symptoms of *amyotrophic lateral sclerosis have occurred in the practice of my colleague Dr. Leech. 1946M. R. Everett Med. Biochem. (ed. 2) vi. 462 Pathological creatinuria occurs during the course of such muscle diseases as..amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 1965Jrnl. Indiana State Med. Assoc. LVIII. 1136/1 A patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is commonly middle-aged or older. 1990DiMaggio & Gilbert Real Grass, Real Heroes ii. 24 It took a terminal disease to stop Gehrig—amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—ALS, known ever since as ‘Lou Gehrig's disease’. |