Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A disease of muscle or muscle tissue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disease of a muscle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
myopathia .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine Any of several
diseases ofmuscle that are not caused by nerve disorders
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any pathology of the muscles that is not attributable to nerve dysfunction
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am trying to help raise money to help my friend Susan Combs, who has been diagnosed with mitochondrial myopathy, which is a muscular disease.
moee Diary Entry moee 2005
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The muscle injury, also called myopathy, is a known side effect with all statin medications.
Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog M.D. Ves Dimov 2010
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A rare side-effect of simvastatin is muscle weakness, known as myopathy, and in some cases it can lead to more serious muscle damage.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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The FDA found that patients on the 80mg dose were more likely to develop a severe form of muscle damage called myopathy, compared with those on the lower 20mg dose.
Health Skeptic jonjayray 2010
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An experimental procedure that dramatically strengthens stem cells 'ability to regenerate damaged tissue could offer new hope to sufferers of muscle-wasting diseases such as myopathy and muscular dystrophy, according to researchers from the University of New South Wales
Think Progress 2009
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It could lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of muscle wasting diseases such as myopathy and muscular dystrophy.
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An experimental procedure that dramatically strengthens stem cells 'ability to regenerate damaged tissue could offer new hope to sufferers of muscle-wasting diseases such as myopathy and muscular dystrophy, according to researchers from the University of New South Wales
FuturePundit 2009
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It could potentially lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of muscle-wasting diseases such as myopathy and muscular dystrophy.
The Canberra Times 2009
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My sister (who has nemaline myopathy, another flavor of MD) has faced her own mortality and, at 17, is unbearably stable and steady.
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The FDA said patients taking 80 milligrams of simvastatin daily have an increased risk of myopathy compared to patients taking lower doses of the product or similar cholesterol-lowering drugs.
FDA Urges Limits on Dosages of Zocor Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011
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