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myotonic muscular dystrophy
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | myotonic muscular dystrophy - 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 dominantmyotonia atrophica, myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's diseasedystrophy, muscular dystrophy - any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles |
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Related to myotonic muscular dystrophy: myotonic dystrophy, Duchenne muscular dystrophySynonyms for myotonic muscular dystrophynoun a severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by generalized weakness and muscular wasting that affects the face and feet and hands and neckSynonyms- myotonia atrophica
- myotonic dystrophy
- Steinert's disease
Related Words- dystrophy
- muscular dystrophy
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