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Myotonic dystrophy
– definition :
- (noun)
- a severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by generalized weakness and muscular wasting that affects the face and feet and hands and neck; difficult speech and difficulty with the hands that spreads to the arms and shoulders and legs and hips; the onset can be any time from birth to middle age and the progression is slow; inheritance is autosomal dominant (context:state)
Myrmecophaga
– definition :
- (noun)
- type genus of the Myrmecophagidae; South American ant bear (context:animal)
Myrtle bird
– definition :
- (noun)
- similar to Audubon’s warbler (context:animal)
Mystify
– definition :
- (verb)
- make mysterious (context:change)
- be a mystery or bewildering to (context:cognition)
– Sample : “mystify”
- Got me–I don’t know the answer!
- This beats me!
- This question really stuck me
- a vexing problem
- mystify the story
Myxinoidea
– definition :
- (noun)
- hagfishes as distinguished from lampreys (context:animal)
Myopic
– definition :
- (adjective)
- lacking foresight or scope (context:all)
- unable to see distant objects clearly (context:all)
– Sample : “myopic”
- a short view of the problem
- myopic thinking
- shortsighted critics derided the plan
- shortsighted policies
Myriapoda
– definition :
- (noun)
- arthropods having the body composed of numerous double somites each with two pairs of legs: millipedes (context:animal)
Myrobalan
– definition :
- (noun)
- small Asiatic tree bearing edible red or yellow fruit (context:plant)
Mysoandry
– definition :
- (noun)
- hatred for men or boys (context:feeling)
Mythicize
– definition :
- (verb)
- make into a myth (context:change)
- interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology (context:cognition)
– Sample : “mythicize”
- The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66
- mythicize the ancient stories
