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a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers- About 400,000 people in the United States have multiple sclerosis.
- One doctor suggested she might have multiple sclerosis; so many of her symptoms seemed to indicate some kind of degenerative illness.Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
- Find out how to cure muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis—Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
- By the time she had turned thirty, prison doctors diagnosed her with multiple sclerosis, intellectual disability, and mental illness related to trauma.Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
- Yo, Mrs. P...... is one of them a cure for multiple sclerosis?Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
- Mae hadn't gotten used to her father having multiple sclerosis.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- "What about Jacqueline Du Pre?" she'd always asked, referring to her own idol, a talented and tempestuous cellist who'd been stricken with multiple sclerosis at the age of twenty-eight and died about fifteen years later.Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
- Hyman also got an affidavit from a fourth doctor explaining that the patients in the study wouldn't have been capable of giving informed consent even if Southam had asked: one had advanced Parkinson's disease and couldn't talk, others spoke only Yiddish, one had multiple sclerosis and "depressive psychosis."Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- He developed multiple sclerosis, which eventually forced him into a wheelchair.Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
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