motor neuron diseasenoun [ U ]
uk/ˌməʊ.tə ˈnjʊə.rɒn dɪˌziːz/us/ˈmoʊ.t̬ɚ ˈnʊr.ɑːn dɪˌziːz/UK also motor neurone disease, US ALS, Lou Gehrig's diseasea serious disease that affects the nerve cells and causes the muscles to become weaker and smaller
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Disorders of muscles & the nervous system
- acoustic neuroma
- agnosia
- akinetic-rigid HD
- ALS
- Alzheimer's
- amyloid plaque
- atrophy
- catalepsy
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- Morton's metatarsalgia
- Moyamoya disease
- multiple system atrophy
- muscular dystrophy
- myasthenia gravis
- myelin damage
- persistent vegetative state
- rabid
- rabies
- vapour
- writer's cramp
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