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
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.