Chapter 23 - Demyelinating diseases of the nervous system. Introduction. This group of diseases (see Table 23-1) is characterized by lesions that are associated with loss of myelin with relative sparing of axons. There are many type of disease that damage myelin in concert with the destruction of axons.
A realm is an area that is ruled by something. If you are a controlling cook who doesnât like anyone to do anything else in the kitchen, then the kitchen is your realm. Realm comes from the French for kingdom, but since there arenât so many kings or queens left in the world, youâll more often find it referring to non-royal spheres. That could be the sphere of a special kind of knowledge, like the realm of biology, or the political realm.
To some extent Reich is comparable in meaning and development to the English word realm. In the case of the Hohenzollern Empire, the official name was Deutsches Reich, which is literally translated as German Realm, because formally the official position of its head of state, in the Constitution of the German Empire, was a presidency of a confederation of German states led by the King of Prussia.