Ms.

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Ms.
       n : a form of address for a woman that does not depend on her
           marital status

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  MS
       n 1: a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of
            myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers [syn: {multiple
            sclerosis}, {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}]
       3: a master's degree in science [syn: {Master of Science}, {SM},
           {MSc}]
       4: the form of a literary work submitted for publication [syn:
          {manuscript}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  MS
       Mobile Station (GSM, mobile-systems)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  MS
       Message Store
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  MS
       Memory Stick
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  MS
       Meta Signaling (ATM, ???)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  MS
       MicroSoft (manufacturer, MS)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  ms
       
           The {country code} for Montserrat.
       
          (1999-01-27)