MYASTHENIC SYNDROME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myasthenic syndrome mean? 

• MYASTHENIC SYNDROME (noun)
  The noun MYASTHENIC SYNDROME has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: MYASTHENIC SYNDROME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYASTHENIC SYNDROME (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

carcinomatous myopathy; Eaton-Lambert syndrome; Lambert-Eaton syndrome; myasthenic syndrome

Hypernyms ("myasthenic syndrome" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

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

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