How to Use myasthenia gravis in a Sentence

myasthenia gravis

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• The cause was pneumonia and complications from myasthenia gravis, said a daughter-in-law, Kathryn Ceja.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
• Luckily, myasthenia gravis is well known to physicians.
  — Jon Garelick, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022
• In the comic books, Web is a blind, elderly woman who suffers from myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder that forces her to use a life support system.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• Very droopy eyelids may be a sign of myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disorder that causes weakness in skeletal muscles (the muscles the body uses for movement).
  — Claire Gillespie, SELF, 19 Oct. 2017
• Consider the paradox of rare illnesses such as cystic fibrosis or myasthenia gravis.
  — Jamil Zaki, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
• His wife, Diane McGregor, said the cause was complications of the autoimmune disorder myasthenia gravis.
  — Dennis Overbye, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
• His longtime partner, Keely Stahl, said the cause was myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune neuromuscular disease that weakens the skeletal muscles.
  — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
• Tests confirmed the nurse’s suspicion: a rare autoimmune disease called myasthenia gravis, which affects muscle groups including those that control breathing.
  — Jon Garelick, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022
• Doctors treated him for a vitamin B12 deficiency and a rare form of a neuromuscular disease called myasthenia gravis.
  — Laurie McGinley, Washington Post, 13 June 2018
• Another, by Athena Diagnostics, enables doctors to diagnose a patient’s root cause of myasthenia gravis.
  — Paul R. Michel and Matthew J. Dowd, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• In the Marvel comics, Madame Web is a paralyzed, elderly woman with myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune disorder requiring her to connect to a life support system resembling a spider web.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 May 2022
• Soon, this discovery bore medical fruit, by allowing scientists to understand a disease called myasthenia gravis.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2011
• She is currently being tested for myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes skeletal muscles to become weak, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2022
• In 1973 scientists at Johns Hopkins applied radioactive α-bungarotoxin to muscle tissue from people with myasthenia gravis.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2011
• In Marvel comics from 1980 onward, Madame Web is depicted as an elderly woman afflicted by myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder that causes muscle weakness.
  — Ashley Shannon Wu, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2022
• The tumor, known as a thymoma, caused a neuromuscular disorder called myasthenia gravis that attacked the communication between his nerve cells and muscles, as well as inflammation and breakdown of muscle tissue called myositis.
  — S. Wayne Carter Jr., baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2021
• Generalized myasthenia gravis is a chronic and debilitating condition in which the body’s own antibodies disrupt the communication between nerve endings and muscles.
  — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 15 June 2020
• In 2018, Billingsley was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune neuromuscular disease.
  — David Woods, USA TODAY, 17 July 2022
• His son said his father’s early research elucidated the mechanisms of myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disorder, and developed instrumentation and techniques for studying the neuromuscular junction.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 4 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 7 Aug 2024