myotonic dystrophy

Noun

Meaning

a severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by generalized weakness and muscular wasting that affects the face and feet and hands and neck; difficult speech and difficulty with the hands that spreads to the arms and shoulders and legs and hips; the onset can be any time from birth to middle age and the progression is slow; inheritance is autosomal dominant

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Synonyms

myotonia atrophica myotonic muscular dystrophy steinert's disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis dermatomyositis Becker muscular dystrophy myotonia congenita distal muscular dystrophy Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease dystrophia myotonica enzootic muscular dystrophy emery-dreifuss muscular dystrophy facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy dukes' disease autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
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Hypernyms

dystrophy muscular dystrophy

Close letter words and terms

myotonia congenita myotonia dystrophica myotonic myotonic muscular dystrophy myotonin myotonolysis