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Apt (medicine) and Channelopathy (health)


Apt (medicine)


apt


1. Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate. "They have always apt instruments." (Burke) "A river . . . Apt to be forded by a lamb." (Jer. Taylor)

2. Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; used of things. "My vines and peaches . . . Were apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit." (Temple) "This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant." (Lubbock)

3. Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; used of persons. "Apter to give than thou wit be to ask." (Beau. & Fl) "That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers." (F. Harrison)

4. Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar. "An apt wit." "Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die." (Shak) "I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear." (Shak)

Synonym: Fit, meet, suitable, qualified, inclined, disposed, liable, ready, quick, prompt.

Origin: F. Apte, L. Aptus, fr. Obsolete apere to fasten, to join, to fit, akin to apisci to reach, attain: cf. Gr. To fasten, Skr. Apta fit, fr. Ap to reach attain.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Channelopathy (health)


A disease involving dysfunction of an ion channel. Channelopathies are known that involve the ion channels for potassium, sodium, chloride and calcium. There are also channelopathies involving the acetylcholine receptor, the glycine receptor, and Other receptors. Each channelopathy can play a role in a number of different diseases. For example, the calcium channelopathies include familial hemiplegic migraine, malignant hyperthermia (a rare but often fatal genetic condition during anesthesia), episodic ataxia type 2, spinocerebellar ataxia type 6, hypokalemic periodic paralysis type I, central core disease (a cause of the floppy baby syndrome), congenital night blindness and stationary night blindness.