Diseases

Muscle Weakness

A vague complaint of debility, fatigue, or exhaustion attributable to weakness of various muscles. The weakness can be characterized as subacute or chronic, often progressive, and is a manifestation of many muscle and neuromuscular diseases. (From Wyngaarden et al., Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p2251)

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A vague complaint of debility, fatigue, or exhaustion attributable to weakness of various muscles. The weakness can be characterized as subacute or chronic, often progressive, and is a manifestation of many muscle and neuromuscular diseases. (From Wyngaarden et al., Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p2251)

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7 entry terms
  • Muscular Weakness
  • Muscle Weaknesses
  • Muscular Weaknesses
  • Weakness, Muscle
  • Weakness, Muscular
  • Weaknesses, Muscle
  • Weaknesses, Muscular

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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general or unspecified as a clinical state or clinical manifestation; specific muscular or neuromuscular diseases of which this is a manifestation are also available; do not confuse "myasthenia" (my-, muscle and asthenia, weakness) in foreign titles with "muscle weakness": it is more likely to refer to MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; do not confuse with MUSCLE HYPOTONIA or MUSCLE FATIGUE

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  • Muscular Diseases (1966-1995)

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  1. C05w.651w.515w
  2. C10w.597.613.593w
  3. C23.550.695w
  4. C23.888w.592.608.593w

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WE 550

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Muscle Weakness. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018908. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018908
  2. Muscle Weakness. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_weakness
  3. Muscle Weakness. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270421