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
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Luckily, myasthenia gravis is well known to physicians.
—Jon Garelick, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022
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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
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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
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Consider the paradox of rare illnesses such as cystic fibrosis or myasthenia gravis.
—Jamil Zaki, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
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His wife, Diane McGregor, said the cause was complications of the autoimmune disorder myasthenia gravis.
—Dennis Overbye, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Soon, this discovery bore medical fruit, by allowing scientists to understand a disease called myasthenia gravis.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2011
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In 2018, Billingsley was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune neuromuscular disease.
—David Woods, USA TODAY, 17 July 2022
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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
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