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EATON-LAMBERT SYNDROME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
carcinomatous myopathy; Eaton-Lambert syndrome; Lambert-Eaton syndrome; myasthenic syndrome
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Eaton-Lambert syndrome" is a kind of...):
disease of the neuromuscular junction (a disease characterized by impairment of neuromuscular junctions)
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