MYASTHENIA GRAVIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myasthenia gravis mean? 

• MYASTHENIA GRAVIS (noun)
  The noun MYASTHENIA GRAVIS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MYASTHENIA GRAVIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYASTHENIA GRAVIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

myasthenia; myasthenia gravis

Hypernyms ("myasthenia gravis" is a kind of...):

disease of the neuromuscular junction (a disease characterized by impairment of neuromuscular junctions)

autoimmune disease; autoimmune disorder (any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues)

 Context examples 

Antibodies to this protein can be produced by patients with myasthenia gravis.

(A Kinase Anchor Protein 12, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease.

(Myasthenia Gravis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

A classification system for grading myasthenia gravis that divides the disease into 5 main classes and several subclasses.

(Myasthenia Classification System, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, and myasthenia gravis.

(Autoimmune Nervous System Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutation of the gene is associated with congenital myasthenic syndrome with episodic apnea (familial infantile myasthenia gravis 2).

(CHAT wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This type of thymoma usually occurs in myasthenia gravis patients without any macroscopic (gross) evidence of tumor. — 2005

(Microscopic Thymoma, NCI Thesaurus)

For some people, myasthenia gravis can go into remission and they do not need medicines.

(Myasthenia Gravis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

If you have myasthenia gravis, it is important to follow your treatment plan.

(Myasthenia Gravis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Myasthenia gravis is disease that causes weakness in the muscles under your control.

(Myasthenia Gravis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)