Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Pain or tenderness in one or more muscles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a morbid state of a muscle, characterizeā by pain and tenderness. Its pathology is obscure. Also called
myodynia and muscular rheumatism
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism or neuralgia.
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- noun pathology Muscular
pain ortenderness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun pain in a muscle or group of muscles
Etymologies
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Examples
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There will be pain in the muscles of the buttocks, called myalgia; and pain at the end of the spine, called coccygodynia.
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Following an episode of Lyme disease that is treated appropriately, some persons have a variety of subjective complaints such as myalgia, arthralgia, or fatigue.
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This protocol at high methosarb and myalgia methoserpidine and postmortem methotrexate cohort.
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Oral oseltamivir an increasing lithane are in lithium and myalgia consumed.
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Statin therapy induces ultrastructural damage in skeletal muscle in patients without myalgia.
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Though initially reluctant to seek medical attention, he finally made an appointment with a National Health specialist, and two weeks later, he was seen and diagnosed with a form of myalgia (Google it, I did).
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Two years ago my mom was diagnosed with auto immune hepititis, fiber myalgia and the doctors told her that there was no going back, she was going to continually get worse.
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Dr. Robert L. Wortmann, from the University of Oklahoma Medical School, provides some anecdotal evidence for its value in statin associated myalgia/myopathy syndrome.
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Dr. Robert L. Wortmann, from the University of Oklahoma Medical School, provides some anecdotal evidence for its value in statin associated myalgia/myopathy syndrome.
Coenzyme Q Parkinsons trial -negative results-what about statin myopathy?
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Early symptoms are often non-specific, and usually include fever, headache and myalgia after an incubation period of 3-9 days..
soitoldthatfool commented on the word myalgia
a better term, for muscle pain
October 16, 2007