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(anatomy and physiology) Relating to the heart and the skeleton..

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1. (anatomy and physiology) Relating to the heart and the skeleton.
2. (anatomy and physiology) Relating to both cardiac muscle and skeletal muscle, two types of striated muscle (in various animals including humans) that can both be affected by, for example, desminopathies or dystrophinopathies, causing myopathies of cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue.

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Bone and heart health are linked through a variety of cellular, endocrine, and metabolic mechanisms, including the bidirectional effects of mineral-regulating hormones parathyroid hormone and fibroblast growth factor 23. Nutrition plays an important role in the development of both cardiovascular and bone disease.

Desmin (DES) mutations have been recognized as a cause of desmin-related myopathy (OMIM 601419), or desminopathy, a disease characterized by progressive limb muscle weakness and accumulation of desmin-reactive granular aggregates in the myofibers. We have studied three families with skeletal or cardioskeletal myopathy caused by small in-frame deletions in the desmin gene.

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Use cardioskeletal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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