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neurodegenerative disease

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A disorder of the central nervous system characterized by gradual and progressive loss of neural tissue and neurologic function. [ ]

Term info

Label

neurodegenerative disease

Synonyms
  • Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • brain degeneration
  • central nervous system degenerative disorder
  • central nervous system neurodegenerative disorder
  • degenerative disorder of central nervous system
  • neurodegenerative disease
  • neurodegenerative disorder
  • neurodegenerative disorders
database cross reference
Subsets

merged_class

comment

Editor notes: DO treats this as two diseases, Note this is a more general definition than the DO, which defines in terms of neuronal death.

creator

Helen Parkinson

exactMatch

http://identifiers.org/mesh/D019636, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_1289, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C4802, http://identifiers.org/snomedct/80690008

gwas trait

true

has broad synonym

degenerative disease

has narrow synonym

cerebral degeneration disease

id

EFO:0005772