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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ms mean? 

• MS (noun)
  The noun MS has 5 senses:

1. a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers

2. a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War

3. a master's degree in science

4. the form of a literary work submitted for publication

5. a form of address for a woman

  Familiarity information: MS used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

disseminated multiple sclerosis; disseminated sclerosis; MS; multiple sclerosis

Hypernyms ("MS" is a kind of...):

degenerative disorder (condition leading to progressive loss of function)

induration; sclerosis (any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue)

autoimmune disease; autoimmune disorder (any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues)

Meronyms (parts of "MS"):

demyelination (loss of the myelin covering of some nerve fibers resulting in their impaired function)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "MS"):

Hattiesburg (a town in southeast Mississippi)

Yazoo; Yazoo River (a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg)

Tombigbee; Tombigbee River (a river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River)

Pearl River (a river in Mississippi that flows southward to the Gulf of Mexico)

Vicksburg (a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves)

Tupelo (a town in northeast Mississippi)

Natchez (a town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River)

Meridian (a town in eastern Mississippi)

capital of Mississippi; Jackson (capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River)

Greenville (a town in western Mississippi on the Mississippi River to the north of Vicksburg)

Columbus (a town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama)

Biloxi (an old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico)

Domain member region:

siege of Vicksburg; Vicksburg (a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered)

Holonyms ("MS" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Gulf States (a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas)

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

Deep South (the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery)

Holonyms ("MS" is a member of...):

Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A master's degree in science

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Master of Science; MS; MSc; SM

Hypernyms ("MS" is a kind of...):

master's degree (an academic degree higher than a bachelor's degree but lower than a doctor's degree)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The form of a literary work submitted for publication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

manuscript; ms

Hypernyms ("ms" is a kind of...):

piece of writing; writing; written material (the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect))

Sense 5

Meaning:

A form of address for a woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Ms; Ms.

Hypernyms ("Ms" is a kind of...):

form of address; title; title of respect (an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. 'Mr.' or 'General')

 Context examples 

An electrocardiographic finding of a widened QRS duration typically greater than 110 ms which does not meet the morphologic criteria for any of the standard bundle branch or fascicular block patterns.

(Nonspecific Intraventricular Conduction Delay by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An electrocardiographic finding of a slightly widened QRS duration (typically less than 120 ms) with leftward frontal plane QRS axis and typically small Q waves in leads I and aVL.

(Left Anterior Fascicular Block by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An electrocardiographic finding of a wide QRS complex with evidence of delayed conduction to the left ventricle, manifested as a widened initial portion of the QRS complex in leads V5, V6, I and aVL and with QRS duration greater than or equal to 120 ms.

(Left Bundle Branch Block by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An electrocardiographic finding in leads V1 or V2 of an initial R wave duration greater than or equal to 40 ms, R wave greater than S wave, and upright T wave, which is suggestive of myocardial infarction of the posterior wall of the left ventricle, and which is new compared to prior ECGs.

(New Posterior Wall Myocardial Infarction by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An electrocardiographic finding in leads V1 or V2 of an initial R wave duration greater than or equal to 40 ms, R wave greater than S wave, and upright T wave, which is suggestive of myocardial infarction of the posterior wall of the left ventricle, without evidence of current or ongoing acute infarction.

(Old or Age Indeterminate Posterior Myocardial Infarction by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An electrocardiographic finding of a wide QRS complex with evidence of delayed conduction to the right ventricle, manifested by a widened initial portion of the QRS in V1 and V2, a widened S wave in V5, V6, I and aVL, and with QRS duration less than 120 ms.

(Incomplete Right Bundle Branch Block by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An electrocardiographic finding in leads V1 or V2 of an initial R wave duration greater than or equal to 40 ms, R wave greater than S wave, upright T wave, with accompanying ST elevation, which is suggestive of acute myocardial infarction of the posterior wall of the left ventricle.

(Acute Posterior Myocardial Infarction by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An electrocardiographic finding in leads V1 or V2 of an initial R wave duration greater than or equal to 40 ms, R wave greater than S wave, upright T wave, with accompanying ST elevation, which is suggestive of acute myocardial infarction of the ventricular wall of the left ventricle.

(Acute Right Ventricular Myocardial Infarction by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An electrocardiographic finding of a wide QRS complex with evidence of delayed conduction to the left ventricle, manifest as a widened initial portion of the QRS complex in leads V5, V6, I and aVL and with QRS duration less than 120 ms.

(Incomplete Left Bundle Branch Block by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

We already know that a diet high in fat, sugar and salt can influence the development and progression of asthma in children and now we have evidence that it's also possible to manage asthma symptoms through healthy eating, Ms Papamichael said.

(Fish-Rich Diet Beneficial for Children with Asthma, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)