Term: multiple sclerosis: a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Candidate hypernym: degenerative disorder: condition leading to progressive loss of function → 1
Candidate hypernym: goal: the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it → 0
Candidate hypernym: false buckthorn: deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico → 0
Candidate hypernym: gallinule: any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens → 0
Candidate hypernym: percher: a person situated on a perch → 0
Candidate hypernym: couple: a pair of people who live together → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus calceolaria: large genus of tropical American herbs and shrubs with showy cymose flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: area: a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve → 0
Candidate hypernym: kirghiz: a member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia → 0
Candidate hypernym: treason: disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior → 0
Candidate hypernym: sugar-bush: evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with spikes of reddish yellow flowers and glandular hairy fruits → 0