muscular dystrophy

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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.

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