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Definition of Myopathies
1. myopathy [n] - See also: myopathy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myopathies
Literary usage of Myopathies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The Congenital myopathies These consist in the main of defects, that is, ...
myopathies Due to Primary Atrophy (The Muscular Dystrophies) See Part XII, ..."
2. Pediatrics: The Hygienic and Medical Treatment of Children by Thomas Morgan Rotch (1896)
"THE myopathies. ROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHY. ... The other form is found to be
a primary disease of the muscles, and is classed as one of the myopathies. ..."
3. Diseases of the nervous system by Herbert Campbell Thomson (1921)
"MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES CHAPTER XVI THE myopathies; ... PERONEAL TYPE OF ATROPHY
THE myopathies UNDER the term " myopathies " is comprised an important group ..."
4. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"The Muscular Dystrophies or myopathies. This very large and extremely motley
group has also been built up of a variety of forms since Duchenne, ¡n 1849, ..."
5. Diseases of infants and children by Henry Dwight Chapin, Godfrey Roger Pisek (1911)
"... and muscle embryology has not as yet advanced sufficiently to warrant such a
classification. Etiology.—Gowers suggests that the myopathies are due to an ..."
6. A Handbook of Medical Diagnosis: For the Use of Practitioners and Students by James Cornelius Wilson (1915)
"THE myopathies. By this term we understand essential changes in the muscles, ...
In the pure myopathies the changes are confined to the muscles. ..."