MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY

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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

Synonyms:

myotonia atrophica; myotonic dystrophy; myotonic muscular dystrophy; Steinert's disease

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("myotonic dystrophy" is a kind of...):

dystrophy; muscular dystrophy (any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles)

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