DISTAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does distal muscular dystrophy mean? 

• DISTAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (noun)
  The noun DISTAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: DISTAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISTAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (noun)

Sense 1

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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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)