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What does amyotrophic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (medicine) Characterized by atrophy of the muscles
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Most patients with advanced amyotrophic lateral sclerosis live in a functional locked-in state.
Respiratory muscle weakness is the usual cause of death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Motor Neuron Disease is known in Canada and in the United States as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease.
What I feared was wrong with her was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but I hemmed and hawed and told her that we needed to run some tests.
That is how people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis describe their condition.
Then, in January of 2003, he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

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