Definition of Lou Gehrig's disease in English:
 Lou Gehrig's disease
nounluː ˈɡɛːrɪɡz dɪziːzˌlo͞o ˈɡeriɡz diˌzēz
mass nounanother term for ALS
 Example sentencesExamples
-  Onset of nerve-cell damage in rats from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Lou Gehrig's disease - has been delayed by injection of stem cells.
 -  Motor Neuron Disease is known in Canada and in the United States as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease.
 -  Two percent of patients with myasthenia gravis or Lou Gehrig's disease can arrive at clinic with neck weakness but the other problems of these diseases soon begin.
 -  Also called Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS is a progressive, fatal neurological disease affecting as many as 20,000 Americans, with 5,000 new cases occurring in the United States each year.
 -  The researchers also speculated that disturbances in p53 may also play a role in some forms of Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease.
 
Origin
  
1940s: named after H. L. Gehrig (see Gehrig, Lou).