Definition for Difference between revisions of "Multiple sclerosis (MS)"
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Latest revision as of 19:01, 4 March 2011
A disease in which a person's own body, for reasons that are unknown, attacks and destroys myelin as if it were a foreign substance. Eventually, these repeated attacks leave scarred (sclerotic) areas of tissue in the nervous system and impair the function of myelinated neurons that control movement, speech, memory, and emotion.