confused and vague; used especially of thinking
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addled |
befuddled |
muddled |
muzzy |
woolly |
woolly-headed |
wooly |
wooly-minded |
sample sentences
"muddleheaded ideas""your addled little brain"
"woolly thinking"
"woolly-headed ideas"
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indistinct or hazy in outline
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bleary |
blurred |
blurry |
foggy |
fuzzy |
hazy |
muzzy |
sample sentences
"a landscape of blurred outlines""the trees were just blurry shapes"
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a chronic progressive disease characterized by chronic fatigue and muscular weakness (especially in the face and neck); caused by a deficiency of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junctions
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myasthenia |
myasthenia gravis |
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a chronic progressive disease characterized by chronic fatigue and muscular weakness (especially in the face and neck); caused by a deficiency of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junctions
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myasthenia |
myasthenia gravis |
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a disease seen in patients with lung cancer and characterized by weakness and fatigue of hip and thigh muscles and an aching back; caused by antibodies directed against the neuromuscular junctions
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Eaton-Lambert syndrome |
Lambert-Eaton syndrome |
carcinomatous myopathy |
myasthenic syndrome |
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the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae
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mycelium |
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any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection
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<noun.animal>
mycoplasma |
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an acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults
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atypical pneumonia |
mycoplasmal pneumonia |
primary atypical pneumonia |
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reflex pupillary dilation as a muscle pulls the iris outward; occurs in response to a decrease in light or certain drugs
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mydriasis |
a drug that causes the pupil of the eye to dilate; used to aid eye examinations
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mydriatic |
mydriatic drug |
a drug that causes the pupil of the eye to dilate; used to aid eye examinations
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mydriatic |
mydriatic drug |
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the posterior part of the hindbrain in developing vertebrates; forms the medulla oblongata in adults
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myelencephalon |
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a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers
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medulla |
myelin |
myeline |
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a layer of myelin encasing (and insulating) the axons of medullated nerve fibers
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medullary sheath |
myelin sheath |
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a nerve fiber encased in a sheath of myelin
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medullated nerve fiber |
myelinated nerve fiber |