Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun becker_muscular_dystrophy

1 sense of becker muscular dystrophy

Sense 1
Becker muscular dystrophy -- (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))
       => muscular dystrophy, dystrophy -- (any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles)