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单词 myopathy
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Definition of myopathy in English:

myopathy

nounPlural myopathies mʌɪˈɒpəθimaɪˈɑpəθi
Medicine
  • A disease of muscle tissue.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Exercise-induced muscle oxidative stress may be involved in the myopathy associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
    • The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are a group of heterogeneous disorders characterised by acquired progressive muscle weakness and inflammatory infiltrates in skeletal muscle tissue.
    • Neuromuscular diseases are characterized by progressive weakening of skeletal, respiratory, bulbar, and, in the case of myopathies, cardiac muscles.
    • One author thought it should be lumped in with ‘bent spine disease’ and grouped as axial myopathy (central spinal muscle disease).
    • An antisynthetase antibody, when positive, may help confirm the presence of an inflammatory myopathy.

Derivatives

  • myopathic

  • adjective
    Medicine
    • I favor the latter explanation based on the observation that physical exercise may protect the muscle against the steroid myopathic effects.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His pathologic studies encompassed neurogenic and myopathic muscle disease, transverse myelitis, and multiple sclerosis.
      • The patient presents at birth or during the first year of life with generalized weakness and characteristic myopathic facies with several physical deformities.
      • An electromyogram demonstrated rare myopathic findings in two proximal muscles.
      • Most patients had a combination of myopathic features, such as weakness, pain, exercise intolerance, or hypotonia.
 
 

Definition of myopathy in US English:

myopathy

nounmīˈäpəTHēmaɪˈɑpəθi
Medicine
  • A disease of muscle tissue.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • An antisynthetase antibody, when positive, may help confirm the presence of an inflammatory myopathy.
    • Exercise-induced muscle oxidative stress may be involved in the myopathy associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
    • The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are a group of heterogeneous disorders characterised by acquired progressive muscle weakness and inflammatory infiltrates in skeletal muscle tissue.
    • Neuromuscular diseases are characterized by progressive weakening of skeletal, respiratory, bulbar, and, in the case of myopathies, cardiac muscles.
    • One author thought it should be lumped in with ‘bent spine disease’ and grouped as axial myopathy (central spinal muscle disease).
 
 
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