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WERDNIG-HOFFMAN DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Werdnig-Hoffman disease mean? 

WERDNIG-HOFFMAN DISEASE (noun)
  The noun WERDNIG-HOFFMAN DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. 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 childhoodplay

  Familiarity information: WERDNIG-HOFFMAN DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WERDNIG-HOFFMAN DISEASE (noun)


Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Werdnig-Hoffman disease" is a kind of...):

autosomal recessive defect; autosomal recessive disease (a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome)


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