muscular dystrophy

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Noun

muscular dystrophy (countable and uncountable, plural muscular dystrophies)

(pathology) A group of genetic diseases which cause progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue.

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muscular dystrophy

Chinese:
Mandarin: 肌肉萎縮症 (zh), 肌肉萎缩症 (zh) (jīròu wěisuōzhèng)
Danish: muskelsvind (da)
Finnish: lihasdystrofia, lihasrappeuma
French: dystrophie musculaire f
German: Muskeldystrophie f
Irish: diostróife mhatánach f
Italian: distrofia muscolare f
Japanese: 筋ジストロフィー (kin jisutorofī)

Latin: dystrophia musculorum progressiva
Maori: mate horokiwa
Persian: دیستروفی ماهیچه‌ای‎‎, دیستروفی عضلانی‎‎
Polish: dystrofie mięśniowe
Portuguese: distrofia muscular f
Russian: мы́шечная дистрофи́я f (mýšečnaja distrofíja)
Spanish: distrofia muscular f
Swedish: muskeldystrofi c

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