HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia

Synonyms:

Huntington's chorea; Huntington's disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Huntington's disease" is a kind of...):

monogenic disease; monogenic disorder (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)

chorea (any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs)

autosomal dominant disease; autosomal dominant disorder (a disease caused by a dominant mutant gene on an autosome)