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"myasthenia gravis":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a disease that is characterized by progressive weakness and exhaustibility of voluntary muscles without atrophy and is caused by an autoimmune attack on muscle cell receptors which normally bind to acetylcholine released at nerve endings":[
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"\u2026 in myasthenia gravis , antibodies destroy the muscle's receptor proteins that serve as docks for this signal, a chemical called acetylcholine.",
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"\u2014 Science News"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02c8gr\u00e4-",
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"-\u02c8grav-\u0259s",
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"-\u02c8gra-v\u0259s",
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"-\u02c8gr\u00e4v-"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"In the comic books, Web is a blind, elderly woman who suffers from myasthenia gravis , an autoimmune disorder that forces her to use a life support system. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"In the comic books, Web is a blind, elderly woman who suffers from myasthenia gravis , an autoimmune disorder that forces her to use a life support system. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"In the comic books, Web is a blind, elderly woman who suffers from myasthenia gravis , an autoimmune disorder that forces her to use a life support system. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"In the comic books, Web is a blind, elderly woman who suffers from myasthenia gravis , an autoimmune disorder that forces her to use a life support system. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"In the comic books, Web is a blind, elderly woman who suffers from myasthenia gravis , an autoimmune disorder that forces her to use a life support system. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"In the comic books, Web is a blind, elderly woman who suffers from myasthenia gravis , an autoimmune disorder that forces her to use a life support system. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"In the comic books, Web is a blind, elderly woman who suffers from myasthenia gravis , an autoimmune disorder that forces her to use a life support system. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"She is currently being tested for myasthenia gravis , a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes skeletal muscles to become weak, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 Feb. 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, literally, grave myasthenia":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1900, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-143742"
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},
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"myasthenia":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adjective or noun",
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccm\u012b-\u0259s-\u02c8th\u0113-n\u0113-\u0259"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Patients with myasthenia have muscles that tire out much more quickly than normal. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Mar. 2021",
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"Keung wasn\u2019t certain that the patient had myasthenia . \u2014 New York Times , 4 Mar. 2021",
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"That doctor argued that although myasthenia often causes weakness in the muscles of the eyes and mouth \u2014 not unlike what this woman had \u2014 that weakness usually comes and goes. \u2014 Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times , 26 Sep. 2017",
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"His death at the age of 74 came after a long battle with the physically debilitating illness myasthenia gravis and after a public-service career that spanned four decades. \u2014 Sheldon S. Shafer, The Courier-Journal , 7 July 2017",
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"Smith had battled the nerve disease myasthenia gravis for many years. \u2014 Joseph Longo, chicagotribune.com , 6 June 2017",
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"Mr. Smith, who had given up performing to manage his wife\u2019s career, had been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune neuromuscular disease that causes extreme weakness. \u2014 Adam Bernstein, Washington Post , 5 June 2017",
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"After a year and a half of tests and several brutal eye surgeries, he was given a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis, a rare autoimmune disease that interferes with the way nerves and muscles communicate. \u2014 Kim Severson, New York Times , 3 July 2017",
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"Trollious Harris, who has spent most of her life a few blocks from the Taylors, suffers from myasthenia gravis, another autoimmune condition, which has caused her muscles to weaken. \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 19 May 2017"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1833, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172330"
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}
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}
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