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English noun: Steinert's disease

1. Steinert's disease (state) 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


Synonymsmyotonia atrophica, myotonic dystrophy, myotonic muscular dystrophy


Broader (hypernym)dystrophy, muscular dystrophy









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