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Duchenne's muscular dystrophy

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Du·chenne's muscular dystrophy  (d-shnz)
n.
The most common form of muscular dystrophy, in which fat and fibrous tissue infiltrate muscle tissue, causing eventual weakening of the respiratory muscles and the myocardium. The disease, which almost exclusively affects males, begins in early childhood and usually causes death before adulthood.
[After Guillaume B.A. Duchenne (1806-1875), French physician.]
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Noun1.Duchenne's muscular dystrophy - the most common form of muscular dystrophy; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by females but affecting only males)
pseudohypertrophic dystrophy
dystrophy, muscular dystrophy - any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles
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