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Lou Gehrig, n.|luː ˈgɛərɪg|
[The name of Henry Louis ‘Lou’ Gehrig (1903–41), U.S. baseball player, who died from the disease.]
Lou Gehrig('s) disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Not a term used formally in Med.
1941Evening Star (Washington) 4 June pc-1/1 No virus has been found in cases of ‘Gehrig's disease’ as the affliction has become popularly termed. 1953Sci. News Let. 19 Sept. 184/1 (heading) Lou Gehrig disease study started on Guam. 1958New Scientist 17 July 430/1 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease). 1986New Yorker 7 Apr. 37/2 This lady's only fifty, she's got Lou Gehrig's disease. 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’. |