muscular dystrophynoun [ U ]
uk/ˌmʌs.kjə.lə ˈdɪs.trə.fi/us/ˌmʌs.kjə.lɚ ˈdɪs.trə.fi/a serious disease in which a person's muscles gradually become weaker until walking is no longer possible
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Disorders of muscles & the nervous system
- acoustic neuroma
- agnosia
- akinetic-rigid HD
- ALS
- Alzheimer's
- amyloid plaque
- atrophy
- catalepsy
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- Morton's metatarsalgia
- motor neuron disease
- Moyamoya disease
- multiple system atrophy
- myasthenia gravis
- persistent vegetative state
- rabid
- rabies
- spasm
- vapour
- writer's cramp
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