English noun: Werdnig-Hoffman disease | |||
1. | Werdnig-Hoffman disease (state) autosomal recessive disease in which the degeneration of spinal nerve cells and brain nerve cells leads to atrophy of skeletal muscles and flaccid paralysis; death usually occurs in early childhood | ||
Broader (hypernym) | autosomal recessive defect, autosomal recessive disease | ||