English > dystrophy: 2 senses > noun 1, state| Meaning | Any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles. |
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| Synonym | muscular dystrophy |
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| Narrower | 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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| Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, pseudohypertrophic dystrophy | The most common form of muscular dystrophy |
| distal muscular dystrophy | A form of muscular dystrophy that sets in between 40 and 60 years of age and is characterized by weakness and wasting of the muscles of the hands and forearms and lower legs |
| limb-girdle muscular dystrophy | An autosomal recessive form of muscular dystrophy that appears anywhere from late childhood to middle age |
| myotonic muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy, myotonia atrophica, Steinert's disease | A severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by generalized weakness and muscular wasting that affects the face and feet and hands and neck |
| oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy | A form of muscular dystrophy that usually begins between early adulthood and middle age and first affects muscles of the eyelid and throat |
| Broader | genetic disease, genetic disorder, genetic abnormality, genetic defect, congenital disease, inherited disease, inherited disorder, hereditary disease, hereditary condition | A disease or disorder that is inherited genetically |
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| Spanish | distrofia muscular, distrofia |
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| Catalan | distròfia muscular |
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