muscular dystrophy

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Noun

muscular dystrophy (countable and uncountable, plural muscular dystrophies)

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

Hyponyms

• Becker muscular dystrophy
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Translations

muscular dystrophy

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肌肉萎縮症 / 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 (sv) c
• Ukrainian: м'я́зова́ дистрофі́я f (mʺjázová dystrofíja)