multiple sclerotic
multiple sclerotic adjective: pertaining to or affected by multiple sclerosis.
Adjective
multiple sclerotic (not comparable)
- Pertaining to or affected by multiple sclerosis.
- The suspicion that an immune reaction is involved at some stage in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis is implicit in much of the recent literature of the disease (Miller and Schapira, 1959). If this were so, multiple sclerotic subjects might possibly manifest an enhanced capacity to produce...1961, E. J. Field, C. A. Green, Henry Miller, “Response of normal and multiple sclerotic subjects to typhoid-paratyphoid vaccine injections”, in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry...
Noun
multiple sclerotic (plural multiple sclerotics)
- A person with multiple sclerosis.
- In this series 21 multiple sclerotics and 23 control subjects were examined. The latter were physically healthy high-grade mental defectives, actively employed, and taken to represent ‘normal controls’.1961, E. J. Field, C. A. Green, Henry Miller, “Response of normal and multiple sclerotic subjects to typhoid-paratyphoid vaccine injections”, in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry...
Forms of multiple sclerotic
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Questions about multiple sclerotic
- What does multiple sclerotic mean?
- Multiple sclerotic means pertaining to or affected by multiple sclerosis.
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- Multiple sclerotic can be an adjective or a noun.
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