Medical Definition of Rod myopathy

1. A congenital myofibrillar abnormality in which small threadlike or rod-shaped bodies are scattered through the muscle fibres. It is marked by hypotonia and proximal muscle weakness. It is also called rod myopathy with reference to the threadlike (greek nema, thread) rods or myofibrils (latin fibrilla, a little fibre or threadlike structure). (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rod Myopathy

rods
rodsman
rodsmen
rodster
rodsters
rods (retina)
Rodya Raskolnikov
rod cell
rod cell
rod cell of retina
rod disks
rod fibre
rod granule
Rod Laver
rod monochromatism
rod myopathy (current term)
rod nuclear cell
rod outer segment
rod outer segments
rod vision
roe
roe
Roebling
roebuck
roebuck
roebucks
roed
roed
roedeer
roemer

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