Defenition of the word muscular dystrophy

• Defenition of the word muscular dystrophy

  • any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles

Hyponyms for the word muscular 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
  • pseudohypertrophic dystrophy
  • Steinert's disease

Hypernyms for the word muscular dystrophy

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

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  • Synonym for the word musculature
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  • Hypernyms for the word arteria musculophrenica
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