BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
Dictionary entry overview: What does Becker muscular dystrophy mean? • 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.
Dictionary entry details
• BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (noun)
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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