DISEASE OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disease of the neuromuscular junction mean? 

• DISEASE OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION (noun)
  The noun DISEASE OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION has 1 sense:

1. a disease characterized by impairment of neuromuscular junctions

  Familiarity information: DISEASE OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISEASE OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disease characterized by impairment of neuromuscular junctions

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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)