Becker muscular dystrophy

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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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dystrophy muscular dystrophy			Steve Higginson, from Colwyn Bay, has struggled for many years to find appropriate care to treat his Becker muscular dystrophy in what he says is a "desert" for patients like him. WALES: We are being failed say muscle patients by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) Parent Project UK was set up by parents and friends of boys with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy and is campaigning for research funding. Family's crusade for a better life for brave Zak, 2 by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) The 23-year-old, who suffers from Becker Muscular Dystrophy, has such severe cardiac muscle involvement that he would not have survived unless given the transplant in October 2002. Mark's key to independence by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)			because because of Beccabunga beccafico Beccaria Becchi's test bechamel bechamel sauce béchamel sauce bechance Béchar Becharm Beche de mer Bêche-de-Mer Bechet Bechic Bechstein Bechtel crab Bechuana Bechuanaland Bechuanas beck Beck's scale Beckenbauer Becker Becker muscular dystrophy Becket becket bend Beckett Beckford Beckham Beckley Beckman thermometer Beckmann beckon Beclap Beclip becloud become become flat Becomed becoming becomingly Becomingness Becquerel Becquerel rays Becripple BECTU Becuiba Becuna Becurl			Beck, Karl Beck, Lewis Caleb Beck, Ludwig Becke 3-Parameter Becke test Becke-Lee-Yang Becke-Lee-Yang-Parr Becken Becken Beckenbauer Beckenbauer Beckenbauer, Franz Beckenbauer, Franz Beckenbauer, Franz Anton Beckenham Concert Band Beckenham Photographic Society Beckenham School of Art Becker Becker Becker (disambiguation) Becker (disambiguation) Becker (surname) Becker (surname) Becker and Kornetzki effect Becker County Becker County, Minnesota Becker County, MN Becker Industrial Coatings Becker Joest Volk Verlag Becker Lake Wildlife Area Becker muscular dystrophy Becker type muscular dystrophy Becker type muscular dystrophy Becker type muscular dystrophy Becker's Becker's muscular dystrophy Becker's muscular dystrophy Becker's muscular dystrophy Becker's suture Becker's test Becker, Boris Becker, Boris Becker, Carl Becker, Carl Heinrich Becker, Carl Lotus Becker, Gary Becker, Gary S Becker, Giseke, Mohren, Richard Becker, Howard Becker, Jacques Becker, Johann Philipp Becker, John J. Becker, Knuth Becker/Big Lake Youth Hockey Association Beckerite Beckerite Beckerite becket becket Becket (play) Becket (play)

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