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Definition: Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy |
Myotonic Muscular DystrophyNoun1. A severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by facial weakness and drooping eyelids and difficult speech and difficulty with the hands that spreads to the arms and shoulders and legs and hips. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Myotonic Muscular DystrophySynonym: myotonia atrophica (n). (additional references) |
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Health | The pattern of inheritance is, like myotonic muscular dystrophy, autosomal dominant, but the underlying genetic defect is poorly understood. (references) | |
Myotonic muscular dystrophy (MMD) is probably the most common adult form of muscular dystrophy, partly because people with this disorder can live a long life, with variable but slowly progressive disability. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| 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. |
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myotonic muscular dystrophy | 19 |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 79 6F 74 6F 6E 69 63 4D 75 73 63 75 6C 61 72 44 79 73 74 72 6F 70 68 79 |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)M y o t o n i c   M u s c u l a r   D y s t r o p h y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0079 006F 0074 006F 006E 0069 0063 004D 0075 0073 0063 0075 006C 0061 0072 0044 0079 0073 0074 0072 006F 0070 0068 0079 |
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