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WERDNIG-HOFFMAN DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Autosomal recessive disease in which the degeneration of spinal nerve cells and brain nerve cells leads to atrophy of skeletal muscles and flaccid paralysis; death usually occurs in early childhood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Werdnig-Hoffman disease" is a kind of...):
autosomal recessive defect; autosomal recessive disease (a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome)
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