Muscle Disorders

Question 1

Muscular dystrophy

Answer 1

Genetic disease, characterized by gradual atrophy and weakening of muscle tissue

Question 2

Duchenne dystrophy

Answer 2

transmitted as a sex-linked disease passed from mother to son. Loss of muscle function affects skeletal and cardiac muscle. no cure

Question 3

Myasthenia gravis (MG)

Answer 3

a neuromuscular disorder, causes fluctuating weakness of certain skeletal muscle groups. Characterized by destruction of the receptors in the synaptic region that responds to acetylcholine

Question 4

acetylcholine

Answer 4

a substance that transmits nerve impuses (neurotransmitter

Question 5

Dysphagia

Answer 5

difficulty swallowing