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n. - Muscular discomfort or pain from infection or an unknown cause characterized by weakness of limb and neck muscles and much muscle pain and swelling.

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  • When she was in her early 20s, she was diagnosed with polymyositis.
  • I was diagnosed with FSHD facioscapulohumeral dystrophy and polymyositis six years ago.
  • In a 1990 Pennsylvania study, cases of polymyositis, an autoimmune disease of the muscles, resulting in severe muscle weakness, more than tripled between 1973 and 1982.
  • He had been ailing for quite a while from a variety of illnesses, including congestive heart failure, but what finally took him from us was either polymyositis or...
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