Term: multiple sclerosis: a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: equator: a circle dividing a sphere or other surface into two usually equal and symmetrical parts → 0
Candidate hypernym: khowar: a Dardic language spoken in northwestern Pakistan → 0
Candidate hypernym: major depressive episode: (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction → 0
Candidate hypernym: double sharp: a musical notation of two sharps in front of a note indicating that it is to be raised by two semitones → 0
Candidate hypernym: ionian: a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks → 0
Candidate hypernym: beta cell: a cell that produces insulin in the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas → 0
Candidate hypernym: perognathus: pocket mice → 0
Candidate hypernym: trave: a horizontal beam that extends across something → 0
Candidate hypernym: fasces: bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade protruding; in ancient Rome it was a symbol of a magistrate's power; in modern Italy it is a symbol of fascism → 0
Candidate hypernym: true sago palm: Malaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji → 0