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Definition: Dystrophy |
DystrophyNoun1. Any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles. 2. Any degenerative disorder resulting from inadequate or faulty nutrition. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Any disorder arising from defective or faulty nutrition, especially the muscular dystrophies. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: DystrophySynonym: muscular dystrophy (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dystrophy |
| English words defined with "dystrophy": Duchenne's muscular dystrophy ♦ limb-girdle muscular dystrophy ♦ myotonia atrophica, myotonic muscular dystrophy ♦ pseudohypertrophic dystrophy ♦ Steinert's disease. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dystrophy": Corneal Dystrophies, Hereditary ♦ dystrophia endothelialis corneae, dystrophia urica, dystrophia urica corneae, Dystrophin ♦ endothelial corneal dystrophy ♦ Glycogen Storage Disease Type VII ♦ keratitis urica ♦ Mice, Inbred mdx, Muscular Disorders, Atrophic ♦ Nail-Patella Syndrome ♦ oculaire ♦ Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion. (references) |
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 | Gross fixed autopsy specimen of gastrocnemius muscle from patient who died of pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy, Duchenne type. Yellowish-white fat replaces normally reddish-brown skeletal muscle. Credit: CDC. |  | Histopathology of gastrocnemius muscle from patient who died of pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy, Duchenne type. Cross section of muscle shows extensive replacement of muscle fibers by adipose cells. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You have many options to locate books on Fuchs' dystrophy. (references) | |
A familial study with special reference to Fuchs' dystrophy. (references) | ||
The following multimedia has been indexed on Fuchs' dystrophy. (references) | ||
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| "Dystrophy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dystrophy" is used about 80 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 80 | 37,112 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dystrophy": annular corneal dystrophy ♦ Bueckler's annular corneal dystrophy ♦ Bueckler's corneal dystrophy type IV ♦ Duchenne's muscular dystrophy ♦ endothelial corneal dystrophy ♦ Fuchs' Endothelial Dystrophy ♦ hereditary annular dystrophy ♦ muscular dystrophy ♦ myotonic dystrophy ♦ myotonic muscular dystrophy ♦ pseudohypertrophic dystrophy ♦ Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dystrophy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | distrofi, ushqim i parregullt, ushqim i pamjaftueshëm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дистрофия. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 营养失调. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dystrofie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dystrophia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | dystrofie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | dystrofia, surkastuminen (wasting), surkastuma (rudiment), rappeutuminen (blight, decay, degeneration, degradation, obsolescence, tiredness), rappeuma, kehityksen estyminen, kasvuhäiriö (displasia, dysplasia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dystrophie (f), dystrophie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dystrophie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δυστροφία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פרע תזו ", "פרעת "תזו ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | táplálkozási zavar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | distrofia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ジカルボン酸 (dicarboxylic acid, dicyanogen, diphenyl, diphtheria, distemper, distoma, dysprosium, feminine form of gigolo, gigolette, gigolo, gigue, Givenchy, Gypsy, gypsy look, Holy War, Japanese Industrial Standard, Jekyll and Hyde, jib, jig, jigsaw puzzle, JIS, JIS mark, jitter, jitterbug, syphilis, zig-zag, zigzag demonstration, ZIP code, Zipangu, Zipper, Zippo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ジストロフィー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ystrophyday distrofia. (various references) дистрофия. (various references) distrofija. (various references) distrofia. (various references) dystrofi. (various references) distrofi, beslenme bozukluğu sonucu bozukluk. (various references) дистрофія. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "dystrophy": leukodystrophy. (additional references) | |
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"Dystrophy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: distrophy, dystrofy, dystrophia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dystrophy" (pronounced di"strufē) |
| 6 | -s t r u f ē | apostrophe, catastrophe. |
| 5 | -t r u f ē | atrophy. |
| 4 | -r u f ē | astrophotography, autobiography, bibliography, biography, calligraphy, choreography, chromatography, cinematography, crystallography, demography, discography, geography, hagiography, historiography, iconography, lithography, mammography, oceanography, orthography, photography, phytogeography, polarography, pornography, radiography, topography, typography. |
| 3 | -u f ē | philosophy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-h-o-p-r-s-t-y-y" | |
-1 letter: hydropsy. | |
-2 letters: hydrops. | |
-3 letters: dropsy, hydros, shorty, sporty, thorps, trophy. | |
-4 letters: dorps, dorty, drops, dropt, horst, horsy, hydro, hypos, phots, ports, potsy, prods, prost, prosy, ryots, short, sophy, sport, story, strop, stroy, thorp, tophs, troys, typos, tyros, yodhs. | |
-5 letters: dopy, dorp, dors, dory, dost, doth, dots, doty, drop, drys, hods, hops, host, hots, hoys, hypo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-h-o-p-r-s-t-y-y" | |
+2 letters: hydrophytes. | |
+5 letters: hypothyroidism, leukodystrophy. | |
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