| NOUN | state | Werdnig-Hoffman disease | autosomal recessive disease in which the degeneration of spinal nerve cells and brain nerve cells leads to atrophy of skeletal muscles and flaccid paralysis |
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| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Broader | autosomal recessive disease, autosomal recessive defect | A disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome |
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