Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Inflammation of a muscle, especially a voluntary muscle, characterized by pain, tenderness, and sometimes spasm in the affected area.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, inflammation of a muscle; myitis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Inflammation of the muscles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Inflammation of themuscles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inflammation of muscle tissue
Etymologies
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Examples
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Neurologists, discovering that in a whole host of diseases—MS, myasthenia gravis, myositis, Guillain-Barré syndrome—the body was destroying parts of its neuromuscular system, became designated specialists in those diseases.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Neurologists, discovering that in a whole host of diseases—MS, myasthenia gravis, myositis, Guillain-Barré syndrome—the body was destroying parts of its neuromuscular system, became designated specialists in those diseases.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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I have autoimmune problems, and my sisters have dermatic myositis and endometriosis and chronic fatigue syndrome and my husband has a bad disk and a bad knee.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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I have autoimmune problems, and my sisters have dermatic myositis and endometriosis and chronic fatigue syndrome and my husband has a bad disk and a bad knee.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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I have autoimmune problems, and my sisters have dermatic myositis and endometriosis and chronic fatigue syndrome and my husband has a bad disk and a bad knee.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Infective pyomyositis and myositis in children in the era of community-acquired, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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I have autoimmune problems, and my sisters have dermatic myositis and endometriosis and chronic fatigue syndrome and my husband has a bad disk and a bad knee.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Infective pyomyositis and myositis in children in the era of community-acquired, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Infective pyomyositis and myositis in children in the era of community-acquired, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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The answer already exists and it's called TMS or tension myositis syndrome.
Colleen Perry: Treating Chronic Pain - There is a Better Way! 2009
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