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ALS   /ælz/   Listen
ALS

noun
1.
Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs.  Synonyms: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease.






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"ALS" Quotes from Famous Books



... im Original, und da wirkte es ganz eigentlich seiner Natur nach. Es ist ein patriotischer Britte der spricht, der die Handlungen des Feindes nicht wohl mit guenstigen Augen ansehen kann, der als ein rechtlicher Staatsbuerger zugleich mit den Unternehmungen der Politik auch die Forderungen der Sittlichkeit befriedigt wuenscht, der den Gegner, im frechen Laufe des Gluecks, mit unseligen Folgen bedroht, und auch im bittersten Verfall ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

... and gave up all thoughts of self-destruction—even in a noble cause; and there, in penance, I somewhat hastily committed to flame the plodding labor of many midnights—an elaborate copy in pen and ink, line for line, of Retel's immortal wood-engraving "Der Tod als Freund," which Mrs. Lintot had been kind enough to lend me—and under which I had written, in beautiful black Gothic letters and red capitals (and without the slightest sense of either humor or irreverence), the following poem, which had cost me ...
— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al

... briddes of the contree, that thei taken and eten. This litylle folk nouther labouren in londes ne in vynes. But thei han grete men amonges hem, of oure stature, that tylen the lond, and labouren amonges the vynes for hem. And of the men of oure stature, han thei als grete skorne and wondre, as we wolde have among us of Geauntes, zif thei weren amonges us. There is a gode cytee, amonges othere, where there is duellynge gret plentee of the lytylle folk, and is a gret cytee and a fair, and ...
— A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients • Edward Tyson

... Jesus Christ, Mit dem Vater, der uber uns ist: Wer starker ist als dieser Mann, Der komm und thu' ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg—1412-1718 • Thomas Carlyle



Words linked to "ALS" :   neurological disease, nervous disorder, sclerosis, induration, neurological disorder



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