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Definition of Myotonic dystrophy

1. Noun. 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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Myotonic Dystrophy

Literary usage of Myotonic dystrophy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"Two relatively rare forms of dystrophy are myotonic dystrophy, and ocular or ... myotonic dystrophy, unlike the other forms, affects distal muscles first, ..."

2. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"myotonic dystrophy is certainly an hereditary disease. ... Cataract is practically always present for generations before the myotonic dystrophy appears. ..."

3. The Never-ceasing Search by Francis Otto Schmitt (1990)
"Chromosome Number Autosomal Dominant Responsible Huntington's disease 4 Myotonic Dystrophy 19 Familial Alzheimer's disease 21 Neurofibromatosis (CNS) 22 ..."

4. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"... MD 21205 Anticipation—increasing severity of disease or decreasing age of onset in succeeding generations—occurs in myotonic dystrophy and the fragile X ..."

5. Nutrient Composition of Rations for Short-term, High-intensity Combat Operations by Fnb, Institute of Medicine (U. S.), High-stress Situations, Committee on Military Nutrition Research, National Academy of Sciences (2005)
"Creatine monohydrate supplementation does not increase muscle strength, lean body mass, or muscle phosphocreatine in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1 ..."

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