werdnig-hoffman disease

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What does werdnig-hoffman disease mean?

autosomal recessive disease in which the degeneration of spinal nerve cells and brain nerve cells leads to atrophy of skeletal muscles and flaccid paralysis; death usually occurs in early childhood

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