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What is myopathy?


what is this? my dad just found out that he had it.

Myo pertains to muscle and -pathy indicates a disorder. _____ myopathy might be weakness or disorder of the muscle named in the blank.
e.g., cardiomyopathy is a general diagnostic term designating primary noninflammatory disease of the heart muscle, often of obscure or unknown cause, and not the result of ischemic (lack of blood flow), hypertensive, congenital, valve, or pericardial (around the heart) disease. It is usually subdivided into dilated, hypertrophic, and restrictive cardiomyopathy,
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