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disease noun affliction, ailment, attack, bodily deviation from health, bout of sickness, breakdown, chronic disability, collapse, condition, contagion, defect, deterioration, discomfort, disorder, distemper, epidemic, handicap, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, invalidism, loss of health, malady, morbus, plague, scourge, sickness, taint, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwholesome condition, virus, weakness See also: contaminate, disorder, pain, taint How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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HCoV-HKU1 is most closely related to the murine hepatitis virus, a virus that causes hepatitis as well as demyelinating disease in mice (18). 7-11, 16-18) Although we cannot exclude the possibility of a primary process involving the peripheral vestibular neuroepithelial cells, our findings--particularly our finding of demyelination with axon sparing--are highly suggestive of an active primary demyelinating disease process that might be of immune-mediated origin. Multiple Sclerosis is a demyelinating disease that effects the central nervous system. |
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