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MS as an Ambiguous Abbreviation

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The abbreviation MS is error-prone because it stands for more than one substance and for a neurological condition.

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The recommendation is that the full name is written out in every case.

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This is the clearest documented case of one abbreviation carrying several unrelated meanings.