Defenition of the word dystrophy

• Defenition of the word dystrophy

  • any degenerative disorder resulting from inadequate or faulty nutrition
  • any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles

Hyponyms for the word dystrophy

• • Becker muscular dystrophy
  • distal muscular dystrophy
  • Duchenne's muscular dystrophy
  • limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
  • myotonia atrophica
  • myotonic dystrophy
  • myotonic muscular dystrophy
  • oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
  • osteodystrophy
  • pseudohypertrophic dystrophy
  • Steinert's disease

Hypernyms for the word dystrophy

• • congenital disease
  • degenerative disorder
  • genetic abnormality
  • genetic defect
  • genetic disease
  • genetic disorder
  • hereditary condition
  • hereditary disease
  • inherited disease
  • inherited disorder
  • pathology

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