MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY


Meaning of MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY in English

Function: noun

Date: 1963

: a muscular disorder that is characterized by dystrophic muscle weakness and myotonia affecting multiple bodily systems and that is caused by an abnormally high number of repeats of a codon in the genetic material

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