myasthenic syndrome
- noun
- /ˌmaɪəˈsθɛnɪk ˈsɪnˌdroʊm/
- Specialized
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síndrome miasténico
- The patient was diagnosed with myasthenic syndrome after experiencing persistent muscle weakness and fatigue.
Examples
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Treatment for myasthenic syndrome often involves addressing both the cancer and the autoimmune symptoms.
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Doctors linked his myasthenic syndrome to an underlying lung carcinoma.
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The doctor diagnosed her with myasthenic syndrome last week.
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Many patients experience fatigue due to myasthenic syndrome.
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Doctors linked his myasthenic syndrome to an underlying lung carcinoma.
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The patient was diagnosed with myasthenic syndrome after experiencing persistent muscle weakness and fatigue.
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Treatment for myasthenic syndrome often involves addressing both the cancer and the autoimmune symptoms.
Synonyms
A rare muscle disease in cancer patients causing hip and thigh weakness and aching back from immune attack on nerves
A rare illness where the immune system attacks nerves that control the muscles, causing weakness often linked to lung cancer
A rare disease often linked to cancer where the immune system stops nerves sending signals to muscles, causing weakness
How Weak
Surface Forms
Morphology
myasthenic + syndrome
The noun 'syndrome' clearly means a set of symptoms, and 'myasthenic' relates to myasthenia/muscle weakness, so the compound denotes a syndrome characterized by muscle weakness and fatigue; this meaning is compositionally derivable if a learner knows the adjective. However, 'myasthenic' is a technical, rare medical adjective (Greek-derived) that many learners will not know, so understanding often requires specialized lexical knowledge rather than purely general compositional reasoning.
Etymology
Myasthenic syndrome comes from old Greek words: myo meaning 'muscle' and asthenia meaning 'weakness', while syndrome means a 'group of signs'. So the name literally pictures 'weak muscles' and a set of symptoms, which is why it refers to a condition of muscle weakness often seen with cancer.