Term: multiple sclerosis: a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Candidate hypernym: sclerosis: any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue → 1
Candidate hypernym: pole: one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere → 0
Candidate hypernym: ammonite: one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks → 0
Candidate hypernym: actress: a female actor → 0
Candidate hypernym: crown jewels: regalia (jewelry and other paraphernalia) worn by a sovereign on state occasions → 0
Candidate hypernym: auditorium: the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits → 0
Candidate hypernym: seat: furniture that is designed for sitting on → 0
Candidate hypernym: micmac: the Algonquian language of the Micmac → 0
Candidate hypernym: stemless carline thistle: stemless perennial having large flowers with white or purple-brown florets nestled in a rosette of long spiny leaves hairy beneath; of alpine regions of southern and eastern Europe → 0
Candidate hypernym: reflex arc: the neural path of a reflex → 0
Candidate hypernym: coal tar: a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal; coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds → 0