DISTAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A form of muscular dystrophy that sets in between 40 and 60 years of age and is characterized by weakness and wasting of the muscles of the hands and forearms and lower legs; inheritance is autosomal dominant

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("distal 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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