PSEUDOHYPERTROPHIC DYSTROPHY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The most common form of muscular dystrophy; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by females but affecting only males)

Synonyms:

Duchenne's muscular dystrophy; pseudohypertrophic dystrophy

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("pseudohypertrophic 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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