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myasthenia gravis

NOUN
  1. a chronic progressive disease characterized by chronic fatigue and muscular weakness (especially in the face and neck); caused by a deficiency of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junctions

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  • Much of the defendant's evidence focused on his long-term condition myasthenia gravis. Times, Sunday Times
  • Objective To report the clinical features of myasthenia gravis ( MG ) combined with Lambert - Eaton myasthenic syndrome ( LEMS ).
  • His group systematically unravelled many disease mechanisms in different forms of myasthenia gravis, including rare inherited forms. Times, Sunday Times
  • These proteins include recombinant forms of human coagulation factors VIIa and IX, which are being developed for the treatment of patients with hemophilia, and recombinant alpha-fetoprotein, which is being developed for the treatment of Myasthenia Gravis and Multiple Sclerosis. BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories
  • The authors explained that it wasn't myasthenia gravis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, or polymyositis (muscle inflammation), and not carnitine deficiency (an amino acid needed for muscle contraction).
  • The muscles can be afflicted by esoteric diseases such as myasthenia gravis. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ministernotomy approach was designed to perform thymectomy for myasthenia gravis in order to lessen surgical trauma and made cosmetically effectiveness.
  • Hitherto the conception of chemical transmission at nerve endings and neuronal synapses, originating in Loewi's discovery, and with the extension that the work of my colleagues has been able to give to it, can claim one practical result, in the specific, though alas only short, alleviation of the condition of myasthenia gravis, by eserine and its synthetic analogues. Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
  • A sufferer of the auto-immune condition myasthenia gravis, she could not work and relied on benefits. Times, Sunday Times
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the results of thymectomy in patients with myasthenia gravis with or without the presence of a thymoma.
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