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DUCHENNE'S MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Duchenne's 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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