GBS
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Example

The neurologist suspected GBS after the patient's rapidly progressive weakness.

Definition

Initialism of Guillain-Barré syndrome

  • An acute autoimmune neuropathy causing rapidly progressive weakness

Initialism of group B streptococcus

  • A bacterium associated with perinatal and neonatal infections

Initialism of grain boundary sliding

  • Deformation by relative motion along crystal grain boundaries