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    MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY

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     I. (noun) 

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    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 dominantplay

    Synonyms:

    myotonia atrophica; myotonic dystrophy; myotonic muscular dystrophy; Steinert's disease

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    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("myotonic 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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