ms

9 definitions found

ms - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sclerosis \Scle*ro"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. (??, fr. sklhro`s
     hard.]
     1. (Med.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of
        induration produced in an organ by increase of its
        interstitial connective tissue.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Bot.) Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Cerebro-spinal sclerosis (Med.), an affection in which
        patches of hardening, produced by increase of the
        neuroglia and atrophy of the true nerve tissue, are found
        scattered throughout the brain and spinal cord. It is
        associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar
        jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and
        is usually fatal. Formerly referred to as multiple  sclerosis
        , disseminated sclerosis, or insular  sclerosis
        , but now usually called only multiple  sclerosis
        , or MS.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

ms - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  MS
      n 1: a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of
           myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers [syn: multiple sclerosis
           , MS, disseminated sclerosis, disseminated multiple sclerosis
           ]
      2: a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the
         Confederate States during the American Civil War [syn:
         Mississippi, Magnolia State, MS]
      3: a master's degree in science [syn: Master of Science, MS,
         SM, MSc]
      4: the form of a literary work submitted for publication [syn:
         manuscript, ms]
      5: a form of address for a woman [syn: Ms, Ms.]

ms - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  ms
  
     <networking> The country code for Montserrat.
  
     (1999-01-27)
  

ms - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  MS
         Message Store
         

  MS
         Memory Stick
         

  MS
         Meta Signaling (ATM, ???)
         

  MS
         Mobile Station (GSM, mobile-systems)
         

  MS
         MicroSoft (manufacturer, MS)
         

ms - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "MS":
     amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, article, autograph, brain disease,
     brainchild, cephalalgia, cerebral palsy, chorea, composition,
     computer printout, copy, document, draft, edited version,
     emotional disorder, engrossment, epilepsy, essay, fair copy,
     falling sickness, fiction, final draft, finished version,
     first draft, flimsy, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, headache,
     herpes zoster, holograph, ischialgia, letter, literae scriptae,
     literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration,
     manuscript, matter, migraine, multiple sclerosis, nervous disorder,
     neuralgia, neuritis, neuropathy, nonfiction, opus,
     organic psychosis, original, palsy, paper, parchment, penscript,
     piece, piece of writing, play, poem, polyneuritis,
     pressure neuropathy, priapism, printed matter, printout,
     production, radiculitis, reading matter, recension,
     sciatic neuritis, sciatica, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll,
     second draft, shaking palsy, shingles, spastic paralysis,
     the jerks, the written word, tic douloureux, toxic psychosis,
     transcript, transcription, typescript, version, work, writing