myasthenia
Americannoun
noun
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any muscular weakness
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short for myasthenia gravis
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The firm helped build, for example, a tool that screens for a rare neuromuscular disorder called myasthenia gravis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Blackmore victim Paul Stevens, who was forced to retire from work due to an auto-immune disease called myasthenia gravis, invested his ill-health retirement benefit into the fund.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2022
In patients with the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis, muscle cell receptors that induce contraction in response to acetylcholine are targeted by antibodies.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
After a year and a half of tests and several brutal eye surgeries, he was given a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis, a rare autoimmune disease that interferes with the way nerves and muscles communicate.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2017
Esophageal paralysis is not uncommon in myasthenia gravis.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
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