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BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A form of muscular dystrophy that sets in in adolescence or adulthood and progresses slowly but will affect all voluntary muscles; characterized by generalized weakness and muscle wasting that affects limb and trunk muscles first; similar to Duchenne's muscular dystrophy but less severe; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by females but affecting only males)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Becker muscular 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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