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DISEASE OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disease characterized by impairment of neuromuscular junctions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("disease of the neuromuscular junction" is a kind of...):
disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disease of the neuromuscular junction"):
myasthenia; myasthenia gravis (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)
carcinomatous myopathy; Eaton-Lambert syndrome; Lambert-Eaton syndrome; myasthenic syndrome (a disease seen in patients with lung cancer and characterized by weakness and fatigue of hip and thigh muscles and an aching back; caused by antibodies directed against the neuromuscular junctions)
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