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Definition of Muscular dystrophy
1. Noun. Any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles.
Generic synonyms: Congenital Disease, Genetic Abnormality, Genetic Defect, Genetic Disease, Genetic Disorder, Hereditary Condition, Hereditary Disease, Inherited Disease, Inherited Disorder
Specialized synonyms: Becker Muscular Dystrophy, Distal Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy, Pseudohypertrophic Dystrophy, Limb-girdle Muscular Dystrophy, Myotonia Atrophica, Myotonic Dystrophy, Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy, Steinert's Disease, Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy
Definition of Muscular dystrophy
1. Noun. (pathology) A group of genetic diseases which cause progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Muscular dystrophy
1. A group of diseases characterised by progressive degeneration and/or loss of muscle fibres without nervous system involvement. All or nearly all of them have a hereditary origin but details of the type of genetic defect and of the prognosis for the disease vary from type to type. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy) is the most common form. It is due to a sex-linked recessive allele and this is expressed as an absence of the protein dystrophin, the disease in boys shows extensive but insufficient muscle fibre reformation from satellite cells. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muscular Dystrophy
Literary usage of Muscular dystrophy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"In the following report I desire to put on record three cases of progressive
muscular dystrophy occurring in a single family, two of which were seen by the ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"In the following report I desire to put on record three cases of progressive
muscular dystrophy occurring in a single family, two of which were seen by the ..."
3. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"Most of the remaining 15 percent of muscular dystrophy cases fall into the ...
The pathological findings in early phases of muscular dystrophy may include ..."
4. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"RADIOLOGIC LESIONS IN WHITE PEKIN DUCKS WITH muscular dystrophy By RH RIGDON and MH
... However, in man with muscular dystrophy, x-ray changes have been ..."
5. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann, Henry Larned Keith Shaw, Linnæus Edford La Fétra, Luther Emmett Holt (1912)
"In advanced cases the intelligence sometimes suffers and speech is disturbed.
Differential diagnosis.—muscular dystrophy must be ..."
6. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1898)
"due directly to the muscular dystrophy, and the shortening seems to indicate ...
Progressive muscular dystrophy seems to be a disease largely independent of ..."
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