myotonic dystrophy
myotonic dystrophy · myotonic dystrophies
A chronic, slowly progressing, inherited multisystemic disease, characterized by…A chronic, slowly progressing, inherited multisystemic disease, characterized by muscular dystrophy, cataracts, heart conduction defects, endocrine changes, and myotonia.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A chronic, slowly progressing, inherited multisystemic disease, characterized by muscular dystrophy, cataracts, heart conduction defects, endocrine changes, and myotonia.
More definitions
- 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
Forms
plural: myotonic dystrophies| Singular | myotonic dystrophy |
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Synonyms
4 synonymsClose in 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:myotonic muscular dystrophymyotonia atrophicaSteinert-ap-s disease
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