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moyamoya

moyamoya noun: a disease in which certain arteries in the brain are constricted.

moyamoya: a disease in which certain arteries in the brain are constricted
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Noun

moyamoya (uncountable)

  1. A disease in which certain arteries in the brain are constricted.
    • We previously reported that patients of moyamoya disease showed high CD34 + cell levels (2.28 ± 0.53 cells/μL) compared with control subjects (0.89 ± 0.07 cells/μL) 9 .2014 December 13, Hisashi Makino et al., “Decreased levels of circulating CD34+ cells are associated with coronary heart disease in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes”, in Journal of Diabetes...

Origin of moyamoya

From Japanese もやもや (moyamoya).

Phrases with moyamoya

Questions about moyamoya

What does moyamoya mean?
Moyamoya means a disease in which certain arteries in the brain are constricted.
What part of speech is moyamoya?
Moyamoya is a noun.

Words near moyamoya in the dictionary

  1. moxy
  2. Moy
  3. moya
  4. moyai
  5. moyais
  6. moyamoya
  7. Moyamoya disease
  8. Moyamoya syndrome
  9. Moyano
  10. Moyanos
  11. Moyarra

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