(n.) Pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism or neuralgia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Painful manifestations (arthralgia, myalgia), variable with fluctuations in the IS affection were observed in both groups (S1, S2).
(2) The chronic sequelae most often associated with long-term disability are sclerodermatous skin thickening (54%), sensorimotor polyneuropathy (61%), proximal myopathy (36%), and severe episodic myalgias (64%).
(3) The recently characterized eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS), which is thought to have been induced by contaminated L-tryptophan preparations, is similar to the TOS in some particulars.
(4) The patient developed myalgia and low grade arthritis in multiple joints together with a high titre of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) and anti-dsDNA antibodies.
(5) Other clinical findings included myalgia, headache, hepatomegaly, and splenomegaly.
(6) Jaundice, fever, myalgia, and marked increase in serum aminotransferase activities occurred after 2 weeks of treatment.
(7) The eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) associated with the ingestion of L-tryptophan (LT) containing products has recently been recognized in the United States.
(8) Muscular strength and overall functional class were improved or stable in 25 patients; myalgias and arthralgias were also stable or improved in 19 patients.
(9) At the end of the follow-up period all the patients, except two, who complained of proximal myalgia, were asymptomatic.
(10) The case definition used in the investigation was any person with fever, headache, myalgias, and arthralgias, or rash or retroocular pain.
(11) Alpha-interferon induces side effects such as fatigue, flu-like syndrome, myalgia, and changes in mood and granulocytes.
(12) We report the cutaneous manifestations of the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome in 10 patients, with specific reference to their clinical course, histopathological features, and immunogenetic studies.
(13) The incidence of myalgia was 76 per cent in the succinylcholine group compared to 23 per cent in the atracurium group (p less than 0.005).
(14) The patient's perception of the severity of arthritis, myalgia and dermatological lesions was an important aetiological factor.
(15) Eleven received corticosteroids and had improvement of general symptoms, arthralgias, arthritis, myalgias, skin changes, eosinophilia, and leukocytosis.
(16) The patients was well until one month prior to the present admission, when he had an onset of painful swelling of lymphnodes in the posterior cervical region, proximal muscle weakness, myalgia and a partial defect in the visual field of the right eye.
(17) The authors report a case of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome with a progressive neuromyopathy.
(18) Toxicity has included nausea, vomiting, fever, chills, myalgia, and fatigue.
(19) One patient exhibited several features of the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome.
(20) The authors describe three enterovirus epidemics: an outbreak of Coxsackie B1 epidemic myalgia, one of echovirus 4 meningitis and one of epidemic vomiting and diarrhea caused by Coxsackie A9 virus.
Tenderness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
Example Sentences:
(1) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(2) The degree of discomfort was slightly greater in women who complained of breast tenderness within three days prior to the mammogram but was not strongly related to age, menstrual status, or week of the menstrual cycle.
(3) Xu, the ABP chairman, disputed any claims of impropriety, and said his company went through a “robust and thorough” tender process.
(4) These data suggest that d 7 MFI could be used as a single predictor of d 14 longissimus muscle tenderness; however, CDP inhibitor d 1 activity (a biological event) also may be useful in predicting tenderness.
(5) Eight of 47 LSNs overlying the posterior superior iliac spines (PSIS) were tender.
(6) If LTP is to be effective, thorough coagulation with tender blanching effects is mandatory.
(7) The remaining patients had vague pains, tender abdomen, constitutional symptoms or a mass in the abdomen.
(8) Seventy-nine percent of all subjects were skin-test positive to inhalant allergens, but positive skin tests alone did not correlate with the number of tender points or criteria for fibromyalgia.
(9) Permanent relief of tenderness in the needled structure was obtained for 92 structures; relief for several months in 58; for several weeks in 63; and for several days in 32 out of 288 pain sites followed up.
(10) Three infants presented with acute scrotal swelling, erythema, and a tender irreducible firm mass within the scrotum.
(11) Before and one, two, three, and seven days after the experiment, the following measures were made: (1) superficial masseter and anterior temporalis muscle tenderness (pain threshold), (2) jaw movement (opening and lateral excursion), and (3) current pain level for the right and left sides of the jaw.
(12) Increasing slaughter weight from 60 to 90% was associated with an increase in panel tenderness scores for loin steaks.
(13) Pericranial muscle tenderness and elevated EMG activity may index different aspects of abnormal muscle function.
(14) The results showed significant relief of spontaneous pain, significant reduction in tenderness on pressure and in swelling on days 2, 4 and 6 of the trial, and a significant reduction in functional impairment on days 4 and 6, in the patients who had received the 3% benzydamine cream.
(15) They showed symmetric weakness and tenderness of the proximal muscles, peripheral hypoesthesia and hypo even areflexia.
(16) Lamb leg and rib roasts were more tender when cooked from the thawed state.
(17) In the sensitized state, nociceptors can be activated by low-intensity stimulation; this is probably one of the mechanisms producing deep tenderness.
(18) The abdomen was tender with guarding and a palpable globular mass in the same region.
(19) A 25-year-old man on hemodialysis developed arthritis of 2 right metacarpophalangeal joints and a 65-year-old man on chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis suffered from pain and tenderness in the left buttock.
(20) Among 23 patients with daily headache a correlation was found between headache intensity and Total Tenderness Score.