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Definition of Dystrophies
1. dystrophy [n] - See also: dystrophy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dystrophies
Literary usage of Dystrophies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"This classification of the dystrophies is accepted by Osler and reproduced in
his Practice of Medicine (1913). Course of the Disease. ..."
2. Organic and functional nervous diseases: A Text-book of Neurology by Moses Allen Starr (1913)
"These have been named the muscular dystrophies. ... The muscular dystrophies have
been classified by Erb,1 who has gathered and analyzed all the facts in ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1889)
"PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR dystrophies. Under this title SACHS in a very valuable paper
... Though these primary muscular dystrophies are the chief subject of his ..."
4. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"Bony dystrophies are also frequent, mostly showing in thinning of the long bones,
with cranial deformities, deformed hands, short hands and short feet. ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1912)
"This form seems to stand between the central muscular atrophy and the muscular
dystrophies. Occurring in families and beginning in early life, it resembles ..."
6. Practical Handbook of the Pathology of the Skin: An Introduction to the by John MacLeod Hendrie MacLeod (1903)
"dystrophies. UNDER the provisional heading of dystrophies of the Epidermis a ...
The same plan will be adhered to in describing the dystrophies of the ..."
7. Manual of Antenatal Pathology and Hygiene: The Foetus by John William Ballantyne (1902)
"The dystrophies, let it be also noted, may occur in combination with the ordinary
... It is quite possible, therefore, that both the dystrophies and the ..."
8. Text-book of Nervous Diseases: Being a Compendium for the Use of Students by Charles Loomis Dana (1892)
"THE PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHIES AND MUSCULAR dystrophies. THE result of modern
studies is to show that the anterior cor- nual cells of the ..."
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