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• n  a chronic progressive disease characterized by chronic fatigue and muscular weakness (especially in the face and neck); caused by a deficiency of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junctions
• n  any muscular weakness

• Newly reported uses for old drugs: Prostigmine, a chemical long used against myasthenia gravis (a sometimes fatal fatigue -weakness disease) and lately found.
• Progress is being made in the treatment of myasthenia gravis, a baffling disease incapacitating about 100,000 Americans.
• He was a victim of myasthenia gravis, a mysterious, uncommon disease which usually strikes adolescents or the elderly.

• myasthenia gravis

News & Articles

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• MG fundraiser set here
  June is Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month, and several events have been planned to bring awareness to this disease which is a chronic condition that causes muscles to tire and weaken easily.
  June 13, 2013 - The St. Augustine Record