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Medical terms encompass terms that your doctor and healthcare practioner may use. These terms are medical based and will be helpful for those patients and family members that are reading medical journals, pamphlets and materials made available by doctors and others.

The following medical terms are commonly used and often seen in ALS journals, articles, and ALS/MND related medical resources. The following medical terms and definitions may be of interest to you:

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1. Acetylcholine
2. Acetylcholine Receptor Antibody
3. Adenosine Triphosphate
4. Agitation
5. Agonist
6. Akinesia
7. Angiogram
8. Arteriogram
9. Ataxia
10. Athetosis
11. Brain Attack
12. Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor
13. Brisk Reflex
14. CD14
15. Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor
16. Classical ALS
17. Computed Tomography
18. Cord Blood
19. CREB
20. Delusions
21. Dementia
22. Diaphragmatic Pacemaker
23. Dopa Decarboxylase
24. Dysphagia
25. Dystonia
26. Electrodiagnostic Tests
27. Electroencephalogram
28. Embolus
29. Encephalitis
30. Euphoria
31. Evoked Potentials
32. Exertional Dyspnea
33. Extrapyramidal System
34. Fasciculation
35. Festination
36. Ganglion
37. Glutathione
38. Headache Primary
39. Headache Secondary
40. Hydrogen Peroxide Assay
41. Hyperreflexia
42. Hyporeflexia
43. Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
44. Incontinence
45. Inflammation
46. Intrathecal
47. Juvenile ALS
48. Ketogenic Diet
49. Ketone
50. Levodopa
51. Ligase
52. Lordosis
53. Macrophage
54. Microglia
55. Micrographia
56. Muscle Cramps
57. Myelogram
58. Myoclonus
59. Neurosonography
60. Nigral
61. Norepinephrine
62. On off Phenomenon
63. Orthostatic Hypotension
64. Pallidotomy
65. Peristalsis
66. Phagocyte
67. Pharmacokinetics
68. Pharmacological Properties
69. Plasmid
70. Pseudobulbar Palsy
71. Pyramidal Pathway
72. Radiation
73. Range of Motion
74. Resting Tremor
75. Retropulsion
76. Rigidity
77. Sclerosis
78. Sialorrhea
79. Side Effect
80. Spasm
81. Striatum
82. Stroke
83. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
84. Substantia Nigra
85. Superoxide Dismutase
86. Sustention Tremor
87. Synapse
88. Thrombus