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For many of us, medical and health insurance terms are unfamiliar or complex. Our glossaries define some of those terms.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a syndrome marked by muscular weakness and atrophy with spasticity and hyperreflexia due to degeneration of the motor neurons of the spinal cord, medulla, and cortex.

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