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

1 sense of myotonic dystrophy

Sense 1
myotonic muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy, myotonia atrophica, Steinert's disease -- (a severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by generalized weakness and muscular wasting that affects the face and feet and hands and neck; difficult speech and difficulty with the hands that spreads to the arms and shoulders and legs and hips; the onset can be any time from birth to middle age and the progression is slow; inheritance is autosomal dominant)
       => muscular dystrophy, dystrophy -- (any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles)