Term: multiple sclerosis: a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: equator: a circle dividing a sphere or other surface into two usually equal and symmetrical parts
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: khowar: a Dardic language spoken in northwestern Pakistan
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: 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
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: double sharp: a musical notation of two sharps in front of a note indicating that it is to be raised by two semitones
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: ionian: a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: beta cell: a cell that produces insulin in the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: perognathus: pocket mice
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: trave: a horizontal beam that extends across something
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: 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
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: true sago palm: Malaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji