| NOUN | state | Becker muscular dystrophy | a form of muscular dystrophy that sets in in adolescence or adulthood and progresses slowly but will affect all voluntary muscles |
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| Meaning | A form of muscular dystrophy that sets in in adolescence or adulthood and progresses slowly but will affect all voluntary muscles; characterized by generalized weakness and muscle wasting that affects limb and trunk muscles first; similar to Duchenne's muscular dystrophy but less severe; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by females but affecting only males). | |
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| Broader | muscular dystrophy, dystrophy | Any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles |
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