myotonic muscular dystrophy

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noun

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
• Syn:
myotonic dystrophy, myotonia atrophica, Steinert's disease
• Hypernyms:
muscular dystrophy, dystrophy