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n. Inflammation of both the spinal cord and nerves

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  • A clue comes from a little known but equally devastating disease called neuromyelitis optica (NMO).
  • Until it receives Biogen's approval, Genentech also must stop working on ocrelizumab for a blindness disease called neuromyelitis optica, and stop work on a different...
  • Wolf has neuromyelitis optica, a condition that results in optic neuritis, an inflammation of the optic nerves.
  • In fact, all the studies before 2004 can be affected by the impossibility to distinguish MS and neuromyelitis optica,
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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