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amyotrophic
noun(amyo-tro-phic lateral sclerosis)
a rare progressive degenerative fatal disease affecting the motor neurons, usually beginning in middle age, and characterized especially by increasing and spreading muscular weakness and atrophy —abbreviation ALS—called also Lou Gehrig's disease

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