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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)
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