Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun werdnig-hoffman_disease

1 sense of werdnig-hoffman disease

Sense 1
Werdnig-Hoffman disease -- (autosomal recessive disease in which the degeneration of spinal nerve cells and brain nerve cells leads to atrophy of skeletal muscles and flaccid paralysis; death usually occurs in early childhood)
       => autosomal recessive disease, autosomal recessive defect -- (a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome)