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MYOPATHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any pathology of the muscles that is not attributable to nerve dysfunction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("myopathy" is a kind of...):
pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)
Derivation:
myopathic (of or relating to any disease of the muscles that is not caused by nerve dysfunction)
Context examples:
Mutation of the gene is associated with limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B, distal myopathy with anterior tibial onset, and Miyoshi myopathy.
(DYSF wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Myopathy caused by mitochondrial abnormalities.
(Mitochondrial Myopathy, NCI Thesaurus)
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