How to Use myasthenia gravis in a Sentence

myasthenia gravis

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  • There is no cure for myasthenia gravis, but treatment is available to help manage symptoms.
    — Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • And many people have had their thymus removed, primarily as a treatment for myasthenia gravis.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 6 May 2026
  • Ford has dealt with health issues before, including eye cancer and myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease.
    — Oliver Gettell, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Consider the paradox of rare illnesses such as cystic fibrosis or myasthenia gravis.
    — Jamil Zaki, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Ford beat the cancer, though he was later diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease called myasthenia gravis that affects the face, eyes and throat.
    — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The cause was pneumonia and complications from myasthenia gravis, said a daughter-in-law, Kathryn Ceja.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
  • 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.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • 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.
    — Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Soon, this discovery bore medical fruit, by allowing scientists to understand a disease called myasthenia gravis.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2011
  • Very droopy eyelids may be a sign of myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disorder that causes weakness in skeletal muscles (the muscles the body uses for movement).
    — Claire Gillespie, SELF, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Off screen, there's Rogers' battle against myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder she was diagnosed with in 1984.
    — Ryan Coleman Published, EW.com, 30 July 2025
  • In addition to muscle weakness, according to the Mayo Clinic, myasthenia gravis can cause a person to have double vision and drooping eyelids.
    — Sean Neumann, People.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Another, by Athena Diagnostics, enables doctors to diagnose a patient’s root cause of myasthenia gravis.
    — Paul R. Michel and Matthew J. Dowd, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
  • His longtime partner, Keely Stahl, said the cause was myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune neuromuscular disease that weakens the skeletal muscles.
    — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Doctors treated him for a vitamin B12 deficiency and a rare form of a neuromuscular disease called myasthenia gravis.
    — Laurie McGinley, Washington Post, 13 June 2018
  • His wife, Diane McGregor, said the cause was complications of the autoimmune disorder myasthenia gravis.
    — Dennis Overbye, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
  • In 2019, Angel was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a rare neuromuscular condition.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • According to the Cleveland Clinic, myasthenia gravis can also target muscles in the face and neck with symptoms including difficulty speaking, swallowing or chewing.
    — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Generalized myasthenia gravis is a chronic and debilitating condition in which the body’s own antibodies disrupt the communication between nerve endings and muscles.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 15 June 2020
  • She is currently being tested for myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes skeletal muscles to become weak, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The tumor, known as a thymoma, caused a neuromuscular disorder called myasthenia gravis that attacked the communication between his nerve cells and muscles, as well as inflammation and breakdown of muscle tissue called myositis.
    — S. Wayne Carter Jr., baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2021
  • In 1973 scientists at Johns Hopkins applied radioactive α-bungarotoxin to muscle tissue from people with myasthenia gravis.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2011
  • In the Marvel comics, Madame Web is a paralyzed, elderly woman with myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune disorder requiring her to connect to a life support system resembling a spider web.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 May 2022
  • In 2018, Billingsley was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune neuromuscular disease.
    — David Woods, USA TODAY, 17 July 2022
  • Tennis great Monica Seles has revealed she was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis — a chronic neuromuscular autoimmune disease, also known as MG — three years ago.
    — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In Marvel comics from 1980 onward, Madame Web is depicted as an elderly woman afflicted by myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder that causes muscle weakness.
    — Ashley Shannon Wu, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2022
  • But B cells are a thread across many autoimmune conditions, including multiple sclerosis (MS), scleroderma (also called systemic sclerosis), rheumatoid arthritis, and myasthenia gravis.
    — Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 14 Nov. 2024
  • As previously reported, Dakota Johnson has been cast as the title character, a blind, paralyzed elderly woman who has myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune disorder requiring her to connect to a life support system resembling a spiderweb.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The Cleveland Clinic trial — sponsored by the drug company Bristol Myers Squibb — has recruited four people with MS as well as three people with another autoimmune disease called myasthenia gravis.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026
  • June is health awareness month for Alzheimer’s disease, cataracts, myasthenia gravis (a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disorder), aphasia (a communications disorder), congenital cytomegalovirus, migraines, scleroderma and scoliosis.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026

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