STEINERT'S DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Steinert's disease mean? 

• STEINERT'S DISEASE (noun)
  The noun STEINERT'S DISEASE 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: STEINERT'S DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEINERT'S DISEASE (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 dominant

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("Steinert's disease" is a kind of...):

dystrophy; muscular dystrophy (any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles)