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muscular dystrophy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English

Syllables
mus-cu-lar dys-tro-phy
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A group of genetic diseases which cause progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

muscular dystrophies (plural)

Synonyms

dystrophy

Questions

What does muscular dystrophy mean?
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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