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BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY

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• BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (noun)
The noun BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY has 1 sense:

1. 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)

Familiarity information: BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY used as a noun is very rare.

• BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (noun)

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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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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Becker muscular dystrophy" is a kind of...):

dystrophy; muscular dystrophy (any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles)

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