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Lou Gehrig's disease definition

Lou Geh·rig's disease (lo̵̅o̅ ger′igz)

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Etymology: after (Henry) Lou(is) Gehrig (1903-41), U.S. baseball player who died of the disease

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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