Assertion: als | /r/Synonym | charcot disease
Facets:
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig disease or Charcot disease, is the most common form of motor neuron disease 1,4 resulting in progressive weakness and eventual death due to respiratory insufficiency.
text: ALS is sometimes referred to as "Charcot's disease" because Jean-Martin Charcot was the first to connect the clinical symptoms with the pathology seen at autopsy.
text: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Charcot's disease and Lou Gehrig's disease, is a disease of unknown cause characterized by slowly progressive degeneration of upper motor neurons (UMNs) and lower motor neurons (LMNs).
text: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease and Charcot disease, is a specific disorder that involves the death of neurons.