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).