Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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- initialism medicine
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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ALS is a devastating disease that offers little or no hope and kills those afflicted within a relatively short period of time.
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Although ALS is generally described as a fatal disease, this is not quite true.
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Also, ALS is intrinsically fascinating, and terrible, and real; friends of ours lost a daughter to it a few months after Souvenir sold.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Therese Fowler, Part 2 2008
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ALS is a fatal neurological disease, affecting about 30,000 Americans, fewer than 10 percent of whom served in the military.
Veterans who develop ALS advocate for benefits BA Haller 2008
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A perk of ALS is to not sweat the small stuff or you become a demanding pain.
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ALS is a progressive disease that destroys neurons affecting movement.
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While we are all going to die at some point even if we don't know when or how, Dudley knows he is dying because he has ALS aka Lou Gehrig's Disease, which is a fatal disease.
Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs: We Don't Talk About How We Are Going To Die Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs 2011
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While we are all going to die at some point even if we don't know when or how, Dudley knows he is dying because he has ALS aka Lou Gehrig's Disease, which is a fatal disease.
Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs: We Don't Talk About How We Are Going To Die Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs 2011
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Prize4Life is holding its Art, Life, Spring, Art Auction, from May 3 to June 3, 2010, with all proceeds going directly to support Prize4Life's mission of treating and curing Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease).
Miriam Cabessa: Art and Movement: An Artist's Connection to Lou Gherig's Disease Miriam Cabessa 2010
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There have been 14 or 15 retired NFL players diagnosed with ALS, which is roughly eight times what would be expected in that population of that age group.
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