Sclerosis \Scle*ro"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. (??, fr. sklhro`s
   hard.]
   1. (Med.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of
      induration produced in an organ by increase of its
      interstitial connective tissue.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Bot.) Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
      [1913 Webster]

   Cerebro-spinal sclerosis (Med.), an affection in which
      patches of hardening, produced by increase of the
      neuroglia and atrophy of the true nerve tissue, are found
      scattered throughout the brain and spinal cord. It is
      associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar
      jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and
      is usually fatal. Formerly referred to as multiple
      sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, or insular
      sclerosis, but now usually called only multiple
      sclerosis, or MS.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

	

	MS
    n 1: a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of
         myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers [syn: multiple
         sclerosis, MS, disseminated sclerosis, disseminated
         multiple sclerosis]
    2: a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the
       Confederate States during the American Civil War [syn:
       Mississippi, Magnolia State, MS]
    3: a master's degree in science [syn: Master of Science, MS,
       SM, MSc]
    4: the form of a literary work submitted for publication [syn:
       manuscript, ms]
    5: a form of address for a woman [syn: Ms, Ms.]

	

	86 Moby Thesaurus words for "MS":
   amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, article, autograph, brain disease,
   brainchild, cephalalgia, cerebral palsy, chorea, composition,
   computer printout, copy, document, draft, edited version,
   emotional disorder, engrossment, epilepsy, essay, fair copy,
   falling sickness, fiction, final draft, finished version,
   first draft, flimsy, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, headache,
   herpes zoster, holograph, ischialgia, letter, literae scriptae,
   literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration,
   manuscript, matter, migraine, multiple sclerosis, nervous disorder,
   neuralgia, neuritis, neuropathy, nonfiction, opus,
   organic psychosis, original, palsy, paper, parchment, penscript,
   piece, piece of writing, play, poem, polyneuritis,
   pressure neuropathy, priapism, printed matter, printout,
   production, radiculitis, reading matter, recension,
   sciatic neuritis, sciatica, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll,
   second draft, shaking palsy, shingles, spastic paralysis,
   the jerks, the written word, tic douloureux, toxic psychosis,
   transcript, transcription, typescript, version, work, writing

	

	MS
       Message Store

	

	MS
       Memory Stick

	

	MS
       Meta Signaling (ATM, ???)

	

	MS
       Mobile Station (GSM, mobile-systems)

	

	MS
       MicroSoft (manufacturer, MS)

	

	ms

    The country code for Montserrat.

   (1999-01-27)