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Becker muscular dystrophy

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Noun1.Becker muscular dystrophy - a form of muscular dystrophy that sets in in adolescence or adulthood and progresses slowly but will affect all voluntary muscles; characterized by generalized weakness and muscle wasting that affects limb and trunk muscles first; similar to Duchenne's muscular dystrophy but less severe; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by females but affecting only males)
dystrophy, muscular dystrophy - any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles


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90),[85] however, have been shown for trained examiners for 18 upper- and lower-extremity muscle groups in children with Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy.
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