Term: myasthenia gravis: 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
Broader: autoimmune disease: any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues | Unrelated: language: a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
Broader: autoimmune disease: any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues | Unrelated: vespid: mostly social nest-building wasps
Broader: autoimmune disease: any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues | Unrelated: contraction: (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
Broader: autoimmune disease: any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues | Unrelated: try square: a square having a metal ruler set at right angles to another straight piece
Broader: autoimmune disease: any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues | Unrelated: ullage: the amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full
Broader: autoimmune disease: any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues | Unrelated: sweet oil: mild vegetable oil when used as food; especially olive or edible rape oil
Broader: autoimmune disease: any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues | Unrelated: cavalryman: a soldier in a motorized army unit
Broader: autoimmune disease: any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues | Unrelated: avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
Broader: autoimmune disease: any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues | Unrelated: crottle: any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made
Broader: autoimmune disease: any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues | Unrelated: junk mail: third-class mail consisting of advertising and often addressed to `resident' or `occupant'