myosin
— Noun
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~ the commonest protein in muscle; a globulin that combines with actin to form actomyosin
myosis
— Noun
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~ an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)
myosis
— Noun
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~ reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller
myositis
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~ inflammation of muscle tissue
Myosotis
— Noun
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~ forget-me-nots; scorpion grass
myotic drug
— Noun
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~ a drug that causes miosis (constriction of the pupil of the eye)
myotic
— Noun
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~ a drug that causes miosis (constriction of the pupil of the eye)
Myotis leucifugus
— Noun
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~ the small common North American bat; widely distributed
myotis
— Noun
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~ largest and most widely distributed genus of bats
myotomy
— Noun
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~ surgical incision or division of a muscle
myotonia congenita
— Noun
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~ a mild, rare, congenital form of myotonia characterized by muscle stiffness
myotonia
— Noun
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~ abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction
myotonia atrophica
— Noun
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~ a severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by generalized weakness and muscular wasting that affects the face and feet and hands and neck; difficult speech and difficulty with the hands that spreads to the arms and shoulders and legs and hips; the onset can be any time from birth to middle age and the progression is slow; inheritance is autosomal dominant
myotonic muscular dystrophy
— Noun
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~ a severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by generalized weakness and muscular wasting that affects the face and feet and hands and neck; difficult speech and difficulty with the hands that spreads to the arms and shoulders and legs and hips; the onset can be any time from birth to middle age and the progression is slow; inheritance is autosomal dominant
myotonic dystrophy
— Noun
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~ a severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by generalized weakness and muscular wasting that affects the face and feet and hands and neck; difficult speech and difficulty with the hands that spreads to the arms and shoulders and legs and hips; the onset can be any time from birth to middle age and the progression is slow; inheritance is autosomal dominant
Myrcia
— Noun
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~ a genus of tropical American trees and shrubs of the myrtle family
Myrciaria cauliflora
— Noun
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~ small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches
Myrciaria
— Noun
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~ a genus of tropical American trees and shrubs of the myrtle family