MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myotonic dystrophy mean? 

• MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY (noun)
  The noun MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY has 1 sense:

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY (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

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

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

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)

 Context examples 

A four nucleotide repeat expansion in intron 1 resulting in 75 to 11000 CCTG repeats is associated with myotonic dystrophy type 2.

(CNBP wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include myotonia congenita and myotonic dystrophy.

(Myotonic Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)