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spinal muscular atrophy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English

Syllables
spinal -mus-cu-lar a-t-ro-phy
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
7
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A neuromuscular disorder that results in the loss of motor neurons and progressive muscle wasting.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

spinal muscular atrophies (plural)

Derived Forms

SMA

Phrases

spinal muscular atrophies spinal muscular atrophy, type 0 spinal muscular atrophy, type 1 spinal muscular atrophy, type 2 spinal muscular atrophy, type 3 spinal muscular atrophy, type 4

Frequently Paired Words

spinal muscular atrophies

Synonyms

SMA

Questions

What does spinal muscular atrophy mean?
A neuromuscular disorder that results in the loss of motor neurons and progressive muscle wasting.

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