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STEINERT'S DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Steinert's disease" 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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