Medical Definition of Infantile muscular atrophy

1. Transmitted as autosomal recessive on chromosome 5q. Progressive dysfunction of the anterior horn cells in the spinal cord and brainstem cranial nerves with profound weakness and bulbar dysfunction occurring in the first two years of life. Three groups, based on age of clinical onset, are recognised. Synonym: familial spinal muscular atrophy, Hoffmann's muscular atrophy, infantile muscular atrophy, infantile progressive spinal muscular atrophy, progressive infantile spinal muscular atrophy, Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, Werdnig-Hoffmann muscular atrophy. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infantile Muscular Atrophy

infantile cortical hyperostosis
infantile digital fibromatosis
infantile diplegia
infantile eczema
infantile fibrosarcoma
infantile fixation
infantile gastroenteritis
infantile gastroenteritis virus
infantile generalised GM1 gangliosidosis
infantile hemiplegia
infantile hydrocephalus
infantile hypothyroidism
infantile leishmaniasis
infantile muscular atrophy (current term)
infantile myxoedema
infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy
infantile neuronal degeneration
infantile osteomalacia
infantile paralysis
infantile pellagra
infantile progressive spinal muscular atrophy
infantile purulent conjunctivitis
infantile spasm
infantile spastic paraplegia
infantile spinal muscular atrophy
infantile tetany
infantilely

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