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MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hereditary condition in which certain anesthetics (e.g., halothane) cause high body temperatures and muscle rigidity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("malignant hyperthermia" is a kind of...):
autosomal dominant disease; autosomal dominant disorder (a disease caused by a dominant mutant gene on an autosome)