Musculoskeletal Diseases and Problems: English Vocabulary List

a genetic disorder characterized by progressive muscle weakness and wasting due to mutations in the dystrophin gene

"Becker muscular dystrophy progresses slowly."

"Becker muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder that causes slowly worsening muscle weakness and wasting."

a genetic disorder causing progressive muscle weakness due to dystrophin gene mutations

"Duchenne's muscular dystrophy affects young boys."

"Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe genetic disorder that causes rapid muscle degeneration in young boys."

a genetic disorder causing progressive muscle weakness, primarily in the hands and feet

"Distal muscular dystrophy affects forearms and lower legs."

"Distal muscular dystrophy affects the muscles of the hands forearms feet and lower legs."

a genetic muscle disorder causing progressive weakness in facial, shoulder, and upper arm muscles, typically starting in adolescence or adulthood

"She has facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy."

"Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy is a genetic condition that gradually weakens the muscles of the face, shoulders, and upper arms over many years."

a group of genetic disorders characterized by progressive weakening and wasting of the muscles, predominantly affecting the shoulder and hip girdles

"Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy affects hip and shoulder muscles."

"Limb girdle muscular dystrophy causes weakness and wasting of the shoulder and hip muscles over time."

a rare genetic disorder that primarily affects the muscles of the eyes and throat

"Oculopharyngeal dystrophy causes droopy eyelids and swallowing problems."

"Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy causes drooping eyelids and difficulty swallowing starting in adulthood."

a disease that affect the muscles, leading to weakness or dysfunction

"Myopathy is a muscle disease."

"Myopathy is a general term for diseases of muscle tissue that cause weakness and wasting."

muscle tissue breakdown leading to myoglobin release, which can potentially cause kidney damage and other symptoms

"Rhabdomyolysis breaks down muscle tissue rapidly."

"Rhabdomyolysis is a serious condition where damaged muscle tissue breaks down rapidly and releases harmful proteins into the blood."

a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disorder characterized by muscle weakness and fatigue, particularly in the voluntary muscles

"Myasthenia gravis causes muscle weakness."

"Myasthenia gravis is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes weakness in the voluntary muscles of the body."

a medical condition where the heart muscle becomes weakened, enlarged, or stiff, leading to impaired heart function

"Cardiomyopathy weakens the heart muscle."

"Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle that makes it harder for the heart to pump blood."

a progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord

"He has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis."

"Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive nervous system disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord."

age-related loss of muscle mass, strength, and function, leading to decreased physical performance and increased health risks

"Sarcopenia is age-related muscle loss."

"Sarcopenia is the age related loss of muscle mass strength and function in older adults."

a rare inflammatory disease that primarily affects skeletal muscles, causing muscle weakness and inflammation

"Polymyositis causes muscle inflammation and weakness."

"Polymyositis is a rare inflammatory muscle disease that causes muscle weakness on both sides of the body."

an autoimmune disease causing muscle inflammation and distinctive skin rashes

"Dermatomyositis causes muscle weakness and skin rash."

"Dermatomyositis is a rare inflammatory disease that causes muscle weakness and a distinctive skin rash."

a neurological condition characterized by a lack of coordination, affecting movements, balance, and speech

"Ataxia affects coordination and balance."

"Ataxia is a degenerative disorder of the nervous system that affects coordination balance and speech."

a medical condition that causes pain and swelling in the joints

"Arthritis causes joint pain and stiffness."

"Arthritis is inflammation of the joints that causes pain stiffness and swelling in affected areas."

a form of inflammatory arthritis characterized by sudden and severe pain, swelling, and tenderness, typically affecting the joint at the base of the big toe

"Gout causes sudden severe joint pain."

"Gout is a form of arthritis that causes sudden severe attacks of pain redness and tenderness in joints."

a degenerative joint disease characterized by the breakdown of cartilage, leading to pain, stiffness, and reduced joint mobility

"Osteoarthritis wears down joint cartilage."

"Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis that occurs when the protective cartilage on the ends of bones wears down."

the inflammation of the bursae, small fluid-filled sacs that cushion and reduce friction between bones, tendons, and muscles near joints

"Bursitis inflames the fluid-filled sacs."

"Bursitis is inflammation of the fluid filled sacs that cushion the bones tendons and muscles near joints."

an abnormal sideways curvature of the spine

"Scoliosis curves the spine sideways."

"Scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine that most often occurs during the growth spurt just before puberty."

a chronic bone disorder causing abnormal bone remodeling, leading to weakened and deformed bones with associated symptoms such as bone pain and fractures

"Paget's disease disrupts normal bone remodeling."

"Paget's disease is a chronic bone disorder that causes bones to become enlarged and deformed."

a condition in children in which bones soften and become more susceptible to fractures and irregularities due to deficiency of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate

"Rickets softens bones in children."

"Rickets is a childhood bone disorder caused by vitamin D deficiency that leads to soft and weak bones."

a condition characterized by inflammation of the tendons on the outer part of the elbow, typically caused by repetitive arm and wrist motion

"Tennis elbow causes outer elbow pain."

"Tennis elbow is a painful condition caused by overuse of the tendons that join the forearm muscles to the elbow."

a genetic disorder causing muscle weakness and delayed muscle relaxation

"Myotonic dystrophy causes muscle stiffness."

"Myotonic dystrophy is a form of muscular dystrophy that causes prolonged muscle tensing and weakness."

a condition caused by repetitive motions or prolonged, repetitive use of certain muscles, tendons, or nerves, leading to pain, inflammation, and functional impairment in affected areas

"Repetitive motion causes cumulative trauma disorder."

"Cumulative trauma disorder is caused by repeated damage to muscles nerves and tendons from performing the same motion."